farce
nounADJ.
complete, total
The whole procedure has become a complete farce.| French, Whitehall
(both figurative) 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.VERB + FARCE
become, degenerate into, end in, turn into
The debate degenerated into farce when opposing speakers started shouting at each other.