Farcical meaning

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Of, or having the nature of, a farce; absurd, ridiculous, etc.
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The definition of farcical is a comedy act or a situation that is improbable or exaggerated to the point of being ridiculous.

An example of something that is farcical is sketch comedy on Saturday Night Live that over-emphasizes the unrealistic aspects of a soap opera in order to make people laugh.

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Of or relating to farce.
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Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

The actions of politicians in office are a farcical joke to most of their constituents.

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Origin of farcical

Farcical Sentence Examples

  • With the end of the Persian Wars, the original object of ostracism was removed, but it continued in use for forty years and was revived in 417 B.C. It now became a mere party weapon and the farcical result of its use in 417 in the case of Hyperbolus led to its abolition either at once, or, as Lugebil seeks to prove, in the archonship of Euclides (403 B.C.).

  • Early in that year was begun The Wrong Box, a farcical romance in which Mr Lloyd Osbourne participated; Stevenson also began a romance about the Indian Mutiny, which he abandoned.

  • In direct military menace terms, his scaremongering is completely farcical.

  • The king, after a somewhat farcical occupation of Rome, which had been evacuated by the French, hurried back to Naples as soon as the French attacked his troops, and although the lazzaroni (the lowest class of the people) were devoted to the dynasty and ready to defend it, he fled with the court to Palermo in a panic on board Nelson's ships.

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