Definition of farcical
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: laughably inept : absurd
- farcical high jinks
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Examples of farcical in a Sentence
the farcical behavior of the troupe of circus clowns
the farcical routine that a person has to go through to get a refund from that company
Recent Examples of farcical from the Web
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Like the border wall—and the farcical prototype competition—the tent city at Tornillo has become yet another physical manifestation of the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
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Despite the film’s farcical nature, Waititi brought a share of significant changes that left the character better for it by the end.
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Even after gifting the Spanish side two goals over the two legs - including one of the most farcical pieces of goalkeeping you'll ever see from Sven Ulreich - the Germans still presented a serious threat to Madrid until the very end of the tie.
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The way Alex builds a business and a podcast is farcical.
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But the ceremony honoring Israel’s founding in 1948 has already been marred by weeks of unseemly politicking and almost farcical twists and turns, all raucously played out in the Israeli news media.
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The mounting criticism directed at Labour over the past two years has gotten hijacked politically, at turns verging on farcical and obscuring the matter at hand.
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Danny Scheie and, especially, Bhama Roget, sow impatience in their farcical routines.
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The opposition called for a boycott, denouncing the election as a farcical exercise.
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First Known Use of farcical
1710
farcical Synonyms
Synonyms
antic, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, funny, hilarious, humorous, hysterical (also hysteric), killing, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious;
Antonyms
humorless, lame, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny, unhumorous, unhysterical;
Near Antonyms
earnest, grave, no-nonsense, sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber (or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty;
affecting, moving, poignant, touching, tragic (also tragical);
Related Words
amusing, diverting, entertaining;
clownish, knockabout, slapstick, slapsticky, zany;
facetious, flip, flippant, smart-aleck, smart-alecky, snickery;
priceless, rich, whimsical, witty, wry;
blithesome, gleeful, jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, mad, merry, mirthful;
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