Synonyms:
farce, farce_comedy, travesty
Meaning: a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
farce, stuff
Meaning: fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
Usage examples
We have always regarded the present system--facetiously called police protection--as a farce.
I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it--a most embarrassing circumstance.
For this reason any token of love between us would be only a mockery, a farce, and true wedded love is something too holy, too sacred, to be travestied in any such manner.
The farce, termed ballet, was a kind of pantomime, the childish incidents of which were sufficient to show the state of the dramatic art in Denmark, and the gross taste of the audience.
On the 15th day of the same month, President Lincoln, introducing his farce "of combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings," called forth the military of the several States to the number of seventy-five thousand, and commanded "the persons composing the combinations" to disperse, etc.