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farce::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | farce comedy, travesty |
| Type of | comedy |
| Derivation | farcical |
Examples of farce
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Then it attempts to satirize Byzantine court intrigue and ends in boudoir farce.
From the time.com
The Allstate 400, one of the season's most important races, turned into a farce.
From the kentucky.com
Instead, Five Course Love is a zany romantic farce, alternately silly and sweet.
From the democratandchronicle.com
If you reject that conclusion, then the whole crisis has been a contrived farce.
From the newsweek.com
Michael Frayn's play Noises Off is sometimes described as a farce about a farce.
From the independent.co.uk
Even in jest, Austen was able to marry her sophisticated farce to entertainment.
From the npr.org
This is the proof why the Euro is a farce, EU union is a farce, NATO is a farce.
From the economist.com
It has the elements of a farce, and Dell's board has no one to blame but itself.
From the dealbook.nytimes.com
As played by Kim Basinger, Nadia lacks what farce needs, irresistible nuttiness.
From the time.com
- A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- Fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
- Forcemeat: mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
- (farcical) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
- In theatre, a farce is a comedy which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include sexual innuendo and word play, and a fast-paced plot whose ...
- Farced is a 1988 record from the band Volcano Suns.
- A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm; A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor; A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents; A ridiculous or empty show
- A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot.
- A type of comedy based on a humorous situation such as a bank robber who mistakenly wanders into a police station to hide. It is the situation here which provides the humor, not the cleverness of plot or lines, nor the absurdities of the character, as in situational comedy. ...
