farce

The election was a farce, for it was fixed.

a mock-heroic farce that burlesques the affectations of Restoration heroic drama.

Irma La Douce is a musical based on the farce mechanism.

He farced his novel with anecdotes.

The trials were a mere farce since no judges were present at all.

It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else’s job to help me.

The debate degenerated into farce when opposing speakers started shouting at each other.

An annual freshman icebreaker called "Dickerella," in which women and men pair off for trips to a local burger Joint named Dick’s, has become a farce.