Farce

/fɑːs/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
2. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
5. (countable) An elaborate lie.
6. (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.
7. (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
8. (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.

Example Sentences

The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.

The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him.

The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."

The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.

The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.

[I]f thou would’ſt farce thy leane Ribs with it [pork] too, they would not (like ragged Lathes) rub out ſo many Dublets as they do: […]

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• farces
• farcing
• farced

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