Definition of Farce

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Definition of Farce

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.

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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

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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