farcical
adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
farcically
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a word derived from
farcical.
Example Sentences
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As designed by David Rockwell, it’s sumptuously drenched in Art Deco, a pristinely elegant background in amusing contrast to the farcically inelegant events that take place in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
On top of that, SafeSport is farcically underfunded: It has just 30 employees to deal with 11 million American athletes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022
He can conjure up both a bleak Italian hut and a gossipy American household, both a farcically bickering pair of siblings and the interior world of a Chinese American actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
"She apologized, by the way, a short while later because we produced the transcript which demonstrated her comments, her tweet, her letter were farcically stupid and wrong," he continued.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2021
"My soul!" she said, suddenly putting on a farcically rapt and yearning expression and speaking in a hollow, hungry voice.
From The Woman with the Fan by Robert Smythe Hichens
