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Examples from the Corpus travesty • It was a political act, a travesty from start to finish. • The single-parent family is a travesty of human needs. • It seemed almost a mockery, a travesty of what should have been. • Irrespective of the success of this integration, your claim was a travesty of the facts.
something that does not have the qualities or values that it should have, and as a result is often shocking or offensive synonym parody The trial was a travesty of justice. His claim is a travesty of the facts. a travesty of a marriage
Synonyms for TRAVESTY: parody, joke, caricature, sham, farce, cartoon, mockery, hoax; Antonyms of TRAVESTY: tribute, homage
TRAVESTY definition: If something is a travesty, it is very badly done or unfair and does not represent how that thing…. Learn more.
Travesty definition: a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation. See examples of TRAVESTY used in a sentence.
The earliest known use of the verb travesty is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for travesty is from 1665, in a translation by J. B. It is also recorded as an adjective from the mid 1600s. travesty is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French travestir.
A complete guide to the word "TRAVESTY": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
