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farce

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1. farce - Noun

2. farce - Verb

Meaning

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

To render fat.

To swell out; to render pompous.

Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.

Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Karl Marx

History always repeats itself twice first time as tragedy, second time as farce. Karl Marx

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. Samuel Johnson

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. Emil Cioran

Life is a farce. Maltese Proverb

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