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• Words from the Martinverse start creeping into your normal conversations, like “smallclothes,” “jape,” and “mummer’s farce.”2015 November 25, Dana Ryals, Kelley Minica, “Winter is Here: A Game of Thrones Reading Group”, in The Clarion, Madison Area Technical…. From the entry Martinverse
• It is also an attempt to mix "whoops!-there-go-my-trousers" farce with the slick kitsch pop-art comedy.1995 December 29, Chris Wright, “Four Rooms [TV review]”, in The Boston Phoenix, Boston, Mass.: Boston Phoenix, →OCLC, section 3, page 19. From the entry whoops, there go my trousers
• Not only was there still no sign of the promised economic recovery, but their presentational skills lapsed into farce.2014, John Crace, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, →ISBN. From the entry promised
• The bolts have to be opened and closed in the right combination to avoid scenes worthy of a French farce.2002, Simon Calder, No Frills: The Truth Behind the Low-cost Revolution in the Skies, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry whoops, there go my trousers
• Now Tyrone, in mixed charity and despair, tries to ring down the curtain on the tragic farce of his son's life.2000, Edward L. Shaughnessy, Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility, →ISBN. From the entry ring down the curtain
• The actors carry off this farce with the usual crude camp, semaphore gestures, shameless hamminess, and heavy ogling.1988 October 21, Lawrence Bommer, “Magnum Farce”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry hamminess
• Thus, the entire procedure of adjudication by the commission has become a farce and a travesty, which has outlived its usefulness.1984 February 4, Franklin Kameny, quotee, “A Call For Reorganization”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 2. From the entry adjudication
• For some odd reason, Sherin has chosen to direct the play as a comedy — at times almost a farce.1976 December 25, Robert Chesley, “New York's "Nightingale" Does No Justice to Williams' Play”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number…. From the entry almost
• Farce, indeed, is a term which has been used by literary historians in two rather different shades of meaning.1904–1906, E. K. Chambers, "The Comedy of Errors", in Shakespeare: A Survey, Fifth Printing, published 1958, page 27. From the entry acceptation
• Mamma is an adaptation of a French farce by Mr.1901, The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3, page 654. From the entry english
• Marx had in mind the tragedy of the fall of Napoleon I and the later farce of the reign of his nephew Napoleon III.2021 January 25, Slavoj Žižek, “Debates: First As Farce, Then As Tragedy?”, in The Philosophical Salon: A Los Angeles Review of Books…. From the entry history repeats itself
• But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'.2015, Ed Glinert, East End Chronicles, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry rider
• Seneca's literary contemporary, Petronius, reflected the " seamy " side of city life by representing Roman "counterculture" in his racy and imaginative farce the Satyricon.2005, Robert B. Kebric, Roman People, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. From the entry counterculture
• Instead of a crazed Brooksian farce about life on the bottom rung, Life Stinks turns out to be a surprisingly low-key Chaplinesque fable.1991 August 9, “Summer Comedies”, in Entertainment Weekly. From the entry Brooksian
• The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation.1964, “Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 36, page 185. From the entry house
• "Why, you little emasculated Don Juan— You—" he spat an unmentionable name— "d'you think I'd fight one of your tin-soldier farces with you?1915, Amélie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy), chapter XXXIX, in Shadows of Flames: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes…. From the entry spit
• Although it turns from his expected farce and comedy toward a series of tragic scenes, the book may still be read as a representative example of De Vriesian humor.2016, Guy Szuberla, “Humor”, in Philip A. Greasley, editor, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, volume 2 (Dimensions of the Midwestern…. From the entry De Vriesian
• In this farce, a fat Cleveland businessman runs away to Manhattan in search of a hiding place from his mobster brother-in-law and unsuspectingly checks into a gay hotel.2014, Jason Whitesel, Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry chubby chaser
• Disney Animation takes a page out of Pixar’s well-worn playbook for “Wreck-It Ralph,” a screwball farce with a novel setting and more edge than your average Disney ’toon.2012 November 1, Roger Moore, “‘Ralph’ borrows from Pixar’s best”, in Caliente (Arizona Daily Star), Tucson, Ariz., page 16. From the entry 'toon
• An actor with a good sense of timing and verbal dexterity can do a lot with a character from a farce by wordmasters like Oscar Wilde or Tom Stoppard.1993, Sally Dorothy Bailey, “Mainstreaming”, in Wings to Fly: Bringing Theatre Arts to Students with Special Needs, Woodbine House, →ISBN…. From the entry wordmaster
• In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii. From the entry transcendent
• There were times when it seemed that the comedy, verging though it did on the wildest farce, might include a certain reflection upon the sin of uxoriousness.1918 August 6, “‘Keep Her Smiling’ wins at the Astor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry uxoriousness
• There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry bungled

Meaning of farce

1. noun A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
2. noun A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
3. noun A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

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Questions about farce in a sentence

How do you use farce in a sentence?

Farce is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.”

What is a short sentence with farce?

“The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.”

What does farce mean?

Farce means a style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.