Meanings of mere farce in английском

From a similar reason, his occasional attempts at comedy degenerate into mere farce.

We were convicted before we had a hearing and the trial was a mere farce.

The trial is of course a mere farce.

He must earn that by some deed of valour, or knighthood would be a mere farce.

Molière's comedy is by no means mere farce.

He regarded this as a mere farce, since there had been no one hurt on either side.

Our municipal institutions are a mere farce, our provincial assemblies only a name, our local liberties naught!

I found the eight-hour law a mere farce, the departments rarely enforcing it with any degree of efficiency.

The arrest is a mere farce.

As soon as the immediate pressure was relieved, however, the whole militia system sank into a mere farce.

And he added, suddenly revealing the tortuous Slavonic nature molded by the Jesuits:-Moreover ,thissignature is really a mere farce.

He looked upon the examination as a mere farce, and did not now regard their position as at all serious.

But, of course, a Perquisition in a house of this kind is a mere farce, without a plan to guide us.

Was it he who was dreaming now, or was the event of the night a mere farce of his own imagining?

The celibacy of the clergy had become a mere farce; and they got dispensations enabling them to obtain ecclesiastical livings for their bastards.

On recalling it, all was a mere farce together, and the people were always stringing together lampoons in rhyme, and singing them in the streets.