farcicality

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Chekhov's humor contains a deep-flowing Slavic melancholy together with a riotous farcicality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within six days of the crisis' resolution, its farcicality became obvious when Iraq contemptuously refused to turn over promised documents to the U.N. inspectors.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a brazen, often hilarious farcicality about it all.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pathetic farcicality of the dear old lady’s wreaths and becks left the seriousness of all this untouched.

From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo

So massive and all-pervasive, so authoritative, and on the whole so decent, in spite of the iniquity and farcicality of the whole thing.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William