Example sentences for: farcical

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.

  • Having contribution limits but no spending limits creates all sorts of weird anomalies, above all the shadowy and often farcical distinction between "independent" and "coordinated" expenditure.


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