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farcical

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1. farcical - Adjective

2. farcical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.

Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. Henrik Ibsen

How could liberty ever have established itself amongst us? Apart from several tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes... But it is in the nation's senate that the most grotesque parades have taken place. Jean-Paul Marat

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Michael Palin

Americans are farcical when it comes to force majeure and money! Two things that they worship. You can't expect a democracy from a society like this. Gore Vidal

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. Isaac D'Israeli

There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is. Kathryn Hahn

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