A farcically inept bungler. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Show's as good as it ever was, which is to say farcically overpacked with technological and situational impossibilities and semi-compelling character drama. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Once again you have larcenous plans gone farcically awry. From Wordnik.com. [Lock, Stock, Same Barrel] Reference
It ' s that it is so glaringly, farcically, perversely undervalued. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell When You] Reference
He also implicated her in what is farcically described as the cover-up. From Wordnik.com. [Another Skate Drops] Reference
Obama administration officials, farcically, are taking credit for events. From Wordnik.com. [Egypt 'not out of the woods yet'] Reference
Communists farcically and dramatically opposing each other in this debate. '. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 21] Reference
When the foregone conclusion was at last farcically submitted to the people, a perjured. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
They fail in every other so-called ideal which farcically underpins their public remit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-28] Reference
Undaunted, Che headed to Bolivia, where he got killed leading a farcically inept Marxist revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: President Obama: Set Cuba Free] Reference
Language more frantically inflated, and deeds more farcically abject, surely were never before united. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
Forget the technical merits, which your IT instructor is/was wrong about in a farcically simplistic way. From Wordnik.com. [Bundling II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
He would explain Margaret Leslie away and the marriage would go on -- farcically -- and it would be a disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Barefoot Bride]
On the surface then an ingenious, almost farcically comic read first published in 1902 and set in rural Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [44 entries from December 2007] Reference
It is a post-modern imitation of northern imperialist structures except that the proportions are all farcically large. From Wordnik.com. [CKS to be renamed] Reference
I would rate any one of them above Act II and III of Return of the Jedi, though, which is farcically tedious to my tastes. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Star Wars] Reference
Though as my lovely housemate recently observed, such attempts are farcically doomed enterprises on a global Web in any event. From Wordnik.com. [This Post is Work Safe] Reference
Or is it needed pragmatism to work with a deeply troubled, farcically entitled though still necessary private financial sector?. From Wordnik.com. [Wyden: My Bill Could Have Prevented AIG Mess] Reference
Sorry, but you do not have the benefit of knowing why I see the “building contractor” analogy as so farcically inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Title to MBH98 Source Code « Climate Audit] Reference
And, the Karzai-picked head of the farcically named Independent Election Commission flat out said that Karzai is going to win the runoff election. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Crowe: Senator Kerry Finds A War With Which He Can Flirt] Reference
The government asked Nicholas Blake QC to look into it, but didn't give him the power to compel or cross-examine witnesses, producing a farcically empty report. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Britain Now Has Its Own Abu Graib - Inflicted By Troops, On Troops] Reference
Using farcically expedient arguments, he had written, "Resolution of the dispute over Kashmir would help deny extremists in the region one of their main call to arms.". From Wordnik.com. [Why is Britain Tolerating David Miliband?] Reference
Mr. McCarthy often employs the historical present, a kind of "hot news" mode used by Hemingway both successfully ( "The Killers") and farcically ( "Islands in the Stream"). From Wordnik.com. [The Fear of a Failure to Communicate] Reference
So then: all this Jewishness and not Jewishness is what the book asks the reader to weigh – eloquently, farcically, seriously, mockingly, perceptively, dumbly, brilliantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference
In the late 1980s, the former dentist (Zargana means "tweezers") began his career as a comedian, appearing on Burmese television farcically detailing the failures of government. From Wordnik.com. [Craig and Marc Kielburger: Burma's Junta Doesn't See Humor in Zargana's Comedy] Reference
However, the draws for both the men's and women's singles will be farcically weak. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
He bowed farcically and took up the wash-basin from its bench just outside the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference
Ghalib's "hota hai shab-o-roz tamaasha" is getting so farcically redefined each passing day. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
Also, the quote is mis-transcribed, further rendering Malkin's original point farcically absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
When John's noble father (Alan Woods) meets his unfortunate fate, it comes off almost farcically. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
This is NOT the same as allowing Wilders into the country (and as we know, farcically he was not). From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
These things have got into the region of farce; and should be dealt with farcically, not even ferociously. From Wordnik.com. [Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays] Reference
They seemed farcically unreal, travesties on the people to whom a discriminating Almighty had given the world. From Wordnik.com. [Senator North] Reference
The junta quietly chucked out the constitution and its court while farcically purporting to uphold judicial independence. From Wordnik.com. [Rule of Lords] Reference
"My soul!" she said, suddenly putting on a farcically rapt and yearning expression and speaking in a hollow, hungry voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with the Fan] Reference
By comparison, the process of applying to buy land in New Zealand seems farcically ethical by comparison, and that's partly the point. From Wordnik.com. [NZ On Screen] Reference
At the same time Miss O'Donoghue, with an odd mixture of farcically pretended astonishment and genuine triumph, fell on the girl's neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of Scarthey] Reference
Gran Torino the shockingly (almost farcically) racist attitudes of Eastwood's character stand in stark contrast to the world around him. From Wordnik.com. [New Humanist Podcast] Reference
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