farce

Example Sentences

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"Never have we seen the farce of an official Fifa referee being refused entry as he arrives for final preparations."

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Ionesco’s brand of absurdism is indebted to classic French farce, which is redeployed in lunatic fashion to lampoon the nonsensical nature of human existence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Perhaps it should be emphasized that the company does not in fact specialize in farce, since the sight of Orpheus stumbling through a mental ward clutching his dead wife’s red shoe was fairly funny.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

To rework Karl Marx’s famous maxim, sometimes historical events can be tragedy and farce at the same time, and repeat themselves in the same register.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Aureliano José did not realize how much ground he had lost on the night he could no longer bear the farce of indifference and went back to Amaranta's room.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez