English-German translations for farce

• Farce die
  Dieses Papier in dieser Kürze ist eine Farce! A paper this short is a farce.
  Aber die vorhergehende war eine Farce. But the previous one was a farce.
  . Die heutige Abstimmung über den Misstrauensantrag war eine Farce. Today's vote on the Motion of Censure was a farce.
• Klamotte die
• Posse die
  Obwohl das Nabucco-Projekt nach einer Oper von Guiseppe Verdi benannt ist, ähnelt der derzeitige Stand der Aufführung eher einer Operette oder Posse. Although Nabucco was named after an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the current state of play resembles more an operetta or farce.
  Friedliche Demonstranten werden verhaftet, gefoltert und in Prozessen zu Gefängnisstrafen verurteilt, die den Beigeschmack einer Posse haben. Peaceful demonstrators are arrested, tortured and given prison sentences following trials that smack of nothing more than farce.

Definition of farce

• A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method
• A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents
• A ridiculous or empty show
• To stuff with forcemeat
• To make fat
• To swell out; to render pompous
• Forcemeat, stuffing

Examples

• The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time
• The first month of labor negotiations was a farce
• The political arena is a mere farce, with all sorts of fools trying to grab power

Related words

• FARC
• infarct
• farcical
• infarction
• microinfarct
• reinfarction
• farcy
• postinfarction
• microinfarction