farcical

The world in general looks upon the college duels as very farcical affairs: true, but considering that the college duel is fought by boys; that the swords are real swords; and that the head and face are exposed, it seems to me that it is a farce which had quite a grave side to it.

"Why," he cries, "if this be not a farcical adventure!

That science is farcical and therefore I am not serious.

The situation was odiously farcical. Richard groaned under it; he longed to leap forward and denounce the humbug.

His report of it was clumsy and farcical; but in a large, loose way it was like enough; at least he had caught the note of our self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality, and this was not altogether lost in his mocking horse-play.

Now, if the farcical puppet of a chief magistrate in the Sandwich Islands be allowed the title of King, why should it be withheld from the noble savage Mehevi, who is a thousand times more worthy of the appellation?

But therein lies the horror of it all--that, however mean and farcical my accusations may be, they are none the less TRUE.

The gold-headed cane is farcical considered as an acknowledgment to me; but happily I am above mercenary considerations."

The conversation was becoming rather a farcical dissertation upon the relations that should obtain between states, irrespective of size, when it was broken off by a cry from Tambi, who, with another lantern hanging overside at the end of his arm had made a discovery.

Lastly, in the concluding decade of the sixteenth century, came a series of realistic stories depicting chiefly, in more or less farcical spirit, the life of the poorer classes.

In the case of the drama, things are a little better: the theatre-going public like the obvious, it is true, but they do not like the tedious; and burlesque and farcical comedy, the two most popular forms, are distinct forms of art.

With perfectly farcical unexpectedness he yelled shrilly: "Oh, you deceitful wretch!