tragi-comic

There were some funny cases, or rather, tragi-comic cases in this connection.
Il y avait - raconte Casanova - des cas comiques, ou plutôt tragi-comiques, à cet égard.
The Schengen Convention is a bureaucratic pile-up, a tragi-comic hotchpotch of monitoring and control of both the countries' own citizens and foreign subjects.
La Convention de Schengen, elle, est un télescopage bureaucratique, un méli-mélo tragicomique de surveillance et de contrôle des propres ressortissants des pays signataires comme des ressortissants étrangers.
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