Example sentences for: farcical

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

  • 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.

  • At one point, Allen gives you several versions of the same climactic scene (it varies according to the historian), and the effect of all those farcical possibilities is elating: a Rashomon -like sequence where you don't give a damn what actually happened.

  • The new screenplay also adds "farcical plot and sight gags to provide hilarity" to the story of the relationship between a commodity trader and the 13-year-old son he finds in the Amazon, according to the Los Angeles Times . Dissenters call the plot ridiculous and the gags tiresome.

  • 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 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.


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