Example sentences for: farcical

How can you use “farcical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Laughter created by farcical comportment, or by satire, creates an opposition to the prescribed value and to the seriousness of it.

  • The White House may have been in crisis all year, but the events were less the stuff of great drama than of a farcical musical comedy.

  • This clunky mistaken-identity comedy about escaped cons who impersonate gay pageant directors doesn't even make sense on its own low farcical terms; it's mostly one lame homo joke after another.

  • It'd certainly be more cathartic for the anti-smoking forces, and probably less painful for the tobacco industry, than the farcical death by a thousand cuts process that's currently underway in Washington.

  • The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.


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