(v. t.) To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
(v. t.) To render fat.
(v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
(v. t.) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(2) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
(3) President Juan Manuel Santos said he valued the gesture from the Farc, but warned it was not enough.
(4) It would be a farce if we failed to reach agreement because of the process," he said.
(5) What we are seeing is the government really squabbling over what is such an important and profound piece of legislation for our country, like kids in a schoolyard.” Shorten told reporters on Sunday the government’s citizenship laws were “rapidly descending into a farce”, and called on it to urgently release the text of the legislation so Labor could scrutinise it.
(6) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
(7) Well it is such ages since the last emergency Farc meeting that nobody can agree what Farc stands for?
(8) The Farc negotiators reiterated their insistence that the rebel leader Simon Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year sentence in a US prison after being convicted of kidnapping three Americans, be allowed to participate as a negotiator.
(9) "It's encouraging because we always thought the whole thing would be a farce but we didn't realise it would be this bad for them and they wouldn't be able to get anywhere near the numbers," he said.
(10) But he said the near farce of Romney's trip will reinforce doubts in the minds of some voters about his fitness for the presidency.
(11) The opposition leader, Delia Lawrie, said the matter was “descending into farce” and called for the government to “at least” enact an independent judicial inquiry.
(12) After this disgraceful farce of wrongful blame (the spokespeople for the police and the NHS happy to tolerate, if not encourage, the misleading targeting of the social workers), the right questions are still being ignored.
(13) Farc negotiators used the meeting to rail against Colombia's neo-liberal economic model and foreign investment in the country.
(14) But proceedings quickly descended into farce, with the defendants' legal team chanting "the people demand the return of the president" and flashing a four-fingered "Rabaa" salute that has become a calling-card for Morsi supporters.
(15) We choose not to participate in this farce,” said the senate minority leader, Dan Blue of Raleigh.
(16) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(17) The Farc have said they are willing to put down their arms but not hand them over to the state.
(18) You can only do that for so long until trust is worn down and it becomes a farce.” Tyler warned that Trump is in for a rough ride if Comey views this as a moment of reckoning.
(19) Three: an agreement by the Farc to cease cocaine production to fund its war.
(20) This point in and of itself completely explains why data retention is an absolute farce, and is in no way a deterrent to terrorism.
Farcical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Athletic Bilbao ’s Raúl García headed the only goal of a near-farcical first leg of their all-Spanish tie with Gary Neville’s Valencia .
(2) Any application for special mission status is considered on its overall merits and may be accepted or refused on legal or policy grounds.” Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions who is acting for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as the FJP, said: “There is strong evidence [Sisi] is guilty of serious and very public crimes, including the mass shooting of demonstrators, forced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, the organisation of farcical trials involving mass sentences of death.
(3) Daniel Sturridge back in England shirt for the first time in 573 days Read more The farcical nature of the situation was reinforced when the plane was able to touch down and, once again, it was held – this time on the outskirts of the airport while a parking spot was found.
(4) Formula One’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix got under way on Sunday on a farcical note with only 14 cars left in the race after the opening lap.
(5) I’ve written before about the farcical quality of DWP medical assessments .
(6) Their campaign started farcically and ended gloriously.
(7) It is ridiculous and farcical to try to blame Labour when the Tories agreed to the accession treaties.
(8) This person was one of the main ring leaders in a network of hostile institutions that were operating in recent years under the supervision of foreign government’s spying and media services.” Richard Ratcliffe, who is in the UK and needs a visa to travel to Iran , said: “If these are indeed the allegations, this is of course farcical.
(9) Australia's Matthew Neuhaus sent a diplomatic cable to Canberra titled "A farcical election", and called for a rerun.
(10) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
(11) It amounts to a farcical repeat of Thatcherite economic history.
(12) Kerslake, who found himself in an impossible position, tried to steer the conversation away from Mackay and from what has been another farcical week at Cardiff.
(13) In one farcical local situation this week, a new-build primary school failed to open because the DfE didn't find a sponsor in time.
(14) The idea that Corbyn must only include clones and drones in the shadow cabinet is farcical.
(15) Talk of having [switchover] in 2015 is just farcical."
(16) I’ve come in and looked at the plan, looked at the calibre of players we’re targeting and said ‘wow’.” It was the first time the former England coach had spoken to the majority of the north-east media since the farcical press conference which marked his arrival at St James’ Park last month when, at the insistence of the club, McClaren spoke to only one national newspaper, the Daily Mirror, which has been discussing a so-called “preferred media partnership” arrangement with Newcastle.
(17) Piano is far more interested in examining how to "refertilise" the suburbs than attending every vote or immersing himself in Italy's fraught and frequently farcical party political scene.
(18) The charges against them are as salacious as they are farcical,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said late last month .
(19) The hope must be that public pressure from the voters whose choices created these farcical situations may help to resolve them as they become more and more impatient with their dithering political leaders.
(20) Bernard Tomic savages Tennis Australia after Davis Cup backflip Read more Bernard Tomic’s public falling out with Tennis Australia has reached a new, farcical low, with the governing body forced into issuing an apology after an email was sent saying Tomic was to play in the upcoming “Hall of Shame Tennis Championships”.