Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a farcical manner; ludicrously.
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- adverb In a
farcical manner
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- adverb in a farcical manner
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Examples
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Show's as good as it ever was, which is to say farcically overpacked with technological and situational impossibilities and semi-compelling character drama.
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Show's as good as it ever was, which is to say farcically overpacked with technological and situational impossibilities and semi-compelling character drama.
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Its gold-standard credit ratings are threatened as never before, its farcically ill-named "debt ceiling" under scrutiny.
Are These Havens Really the Safest Places to go? David Cottle 2011
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Admittedly it may seem a slightly surprising departure for a man so enthused by media boycotts that even MUTV are currently, farcically, banned from speaking to him but Ferguson desperately requires reminding precisely why a free press matters.
Why Ashley Cole, Sir Alex Ferguson and company need a sabbatical | Louise Taylor 2011
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Obama administration officials, farcically, are taking credit for events.
Egypt 'not out of the woods yet' Jennifer Rubin 2011
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Now, farcically, Grenada needed to score a goal at either end to go through.
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Light relief comes in the form of perpetually baffled prosecutor Ralph McIntosh, played by David Straithairn as a self-righteous buffoon, almost farcically enraged by the content of Ginsberg's work.
Charles Thomson: Beat Writers Celebrated at London Film Festival with Mixed Results Charles Thomson 2010
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I'm going on about this because so many big building projects in Britain invite scorn for their flaws of design and execution, and in the case of sporting arenas for their farcically inept legacy planning, too.
Olympic velodrome threatens to give London games a good name | Richard Williams 2011
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Light relief comes in the form of perpetually baffled prosecutor Ralph McIntosh, played by David Straithairn as a self-righteous buffoon, almost farcically enraged by the content of Ginsberg's work.
Charles Thomson: Beat Writers Celebrated at London Film Festival with Mixed Results Charles Thomson 2010
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Finally, the denouement: an England‑Germany second-round match in which Frank Lampard's farcically disallowed goal melted the critical faculties of Capello's men.
Fabio Capello has failed to help England's elite beat their demons | Paul Hayward 2011
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