farcicality

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Chekhov's humor contains a deep-flowing Slavic melancholy together with a riotous farcicality.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a brazen, often hilarious farcicality about it all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within six days of the crisis' resolution, its farcicality became obvious when Iraq contemptuously refused to turn over promised documents to the U.N. inspectors.

From Time Magazine Archive

They appeared to put the farcicality altogether aside, and to have been much impressed by the character of the music.

From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William

So massive and all-pervasive, so authoritative, and on the whole so decent, in spite of the iniquity and farcicality of the whole thing.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William