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travesty

noun as in spoof, ridicule

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Example Sentences

To connoisseurs of smoked fish such confusion would be a travesty.

Such travesty haunts the collective imagination, reflecting myth, history and politics.

Then there was that 80-14 travesty against Idaho, a team that won just one out of eleven games all season.

One of the defense attorneys for Zimmerman said he was glad the outcome did not turn a tragedy into travesty.

As happy as I am for George Zimmerman, I'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty.

The sailor, after the manner so often dwelt upon, is keeping up a pleasing travesty of sea-faring life.

My travesty of Plato was intended to illustrate the difficulty of close reasoning on such topics.

Though the proceedings had been a travesty of justice, they had been invested hitherto with a scenic stateliness.

She may, indeed, have been a mere travesty, though the hypothesis would be anything but free from difficulty.

The Franco-Prussian War was in progress, and this travesty was particularly timely.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to travesty, such as: burlesque, distortion, exaggeration, farce, mockery, and perversion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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