farce — OET · Shobdo

farce

noun

1 at one or two points the stories approach bedroom farce:

slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery;

skit, squib;

rare pasquinade.

▷antonyms tragedy.

2 he denounced the trial as a farce:

absurdity, mockery, travesty, sham, pretence, masquerade, charade, piece of futility, joke, waste of time, laughing stock;

apology, excuse, poor substitute;

informal shambles.

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