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farce

[fahrs] / fɑrs /


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However, Kim Yo Jong ridiculed Lee's latest overture, calling it "the climax of the farce that everyone should watch."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

In placing the problems of his age on the stage, Dürrenmatt combined tragedy and grotesque comedy, poignant drama and political farce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Murray described the situation in Melbourne - where he beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in the second-latest finish in Grand Slam history - as a "farce".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

To answer that question, you have to meet a couple of the other dramatis personae in this particular farce.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

"The mummer's farce has gone on long enough for to-day."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

This darkest of farces is also frighteningly timely.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

These actors sparked off each other, in fast-moving farces or quieter character moments.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

In such moments, “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” begins to achieve the dizzying liftoff of the best backstage farces, like Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

As viewers of those farces might expect, “Champions” attempts to elicit laughs with vomit, flatulence and body odor.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023

They act farces well enough; the actors comprehend their parts and do them justice.

From Charlotte Bront? A Monograph by T. Wemyss Reid

The enemy's ranks were not forced with Macbeth's followers, but farced or filled up.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

You may make a Sauce to these farced Fowls with stew'd Mushrooms toss'd up with Cream; the same may be done with Turkeys, Pheasants, &c.

From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley

The Dublin Troper of the thirteenth century has a number of farced Kyries and Glorias, also a collection of Sequences.

From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox

The word forced should be read farced, the letter o having evidently dropped down into a box.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

These may also be stew'd, farced, baked, or put in Soups, or used in Fricassees.

From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley

To many, the daring experiment of farcing what was obviously written as a farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have; and if I’m to die respected and honored, if my family is to have any regard for my memory, I’ve got to get out of farcing.

From The Dreamers A Club by John Kendrick Bangs

To rost Shoulder or Fillet of Veal with farcing herbs.

From The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex by Hannah Wolley




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