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• s  broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
  the wild farcical exuberance of a clown

• The solemn occasion of turned farcical when a bunch of comedians got on to the stage.
• The press conference quickly turned farcical once the interpreter and the speaker started a spat.
• The investigation turned farcical when the alleged conspirator was made part of the investigating team.

• ludicrous
• ridiculous

News & Articles

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• Death By Lawsuit: SCO Resurrects And Insanity Is Restored
  If ever we needed confirmation that markets, not courtrooms, should decide the technologies we use, witness SCO Group's reborn dream to sue all of UNIX-dom into its wallet. It was a specious lawsuit in 2003 when SCO Group (now Xinuos) first launched its $1 billion broadside against IBM . It's even more farcical today. Sadly, it's not clear that the legal fights between Apple and Samsung, or ...
  June 17, 2013 - ReadWriteWeb

Quotes

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• George Michael in To Be Publications
  Outside the courthouse, Michael told reporters: "Media coverage of this case has been farcical, concentrating almost entirely on the prosecution's allegations. In reality I've been sentenced today on the basis of unfit driving through tiredness and...
• Shami Chakrabarti in BBC News
  Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said on Friday: "Today's farcical proceedings highlight the nightmare of control orders and the heads we win; tails you lose" Home Office idea of justice."
• Ayman al-Zawahri in AFP
  His bloody messages were received and are still being received by Muslims, and they will not be concealed by public relations campaigns or by farcical visits or elegant words,Zawahiri said in an audiotape monitored by SITE Intelligence Group.