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Definition of Farce |
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Farce
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. To render fat. To swell out; to render pompous. Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat. A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. Related Definitions: Abounding, And, As, By, Comedy, Composition, Dramatic, Dressing, Empty, Farce, Fat, Fill, Forcemeat, Fowl, Full, Generally, Hence, Humor, Like, Little, Low, Ludicrous, Marked, Mere, Method, Mingled, Mixture, Of, On, Or, Out, Pompous, Regard, Regularity, Render, Ridiculous, Show, Stuff, Stuffing, Style, Swell, That, To, Used, With, Written |
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Farce Quotations
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. Mark Twain History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. James Madison In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. Mary Wollstonecraft Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. Jean Anouilh The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. James Thurber Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. Arthur Rimbaud It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. Francois Rabelais You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction. Helmut Jahn |
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Farce Translations
farce in French is farce farce in German is Posse farce in Italian is tiro farce in Spanish is chasco, farsa |
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