travesty

The return on this enormous taxpayer investment is a travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

It would be an "absolute travesty" if Ben Stokes does not captain England again but his future remains in doubt, says former skipper Michael Vaughan.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

He was detained for a year, as his attorneys and family were hesitant to post bail, fearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention or deportation, a travesty already enough for one misstep.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026

She added: "It is a travesty that a woman can be judged as having expressed herself in the wrong way when she objects to finding a man in the women's changing room."

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

Then someone subtly begins calling her GLaDOS, which is the name of the evil computer in the classic Portal games—and if this session wasn’t a travesty before, now it definitely is.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The statement ended: "She must remain in prison – anything less would go down in history as being one of the highest travesties of justice."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

Then—watch out—the parade of CEOs uber-bullish on their companies no matter what travesties have befallen them begins.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024

But if they wanted to ditch him for anything, he had nine months of cataclysmic travesties behind him, any one of which could have brought about his downfall.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023

“That even extends to works that address historical travesties that may have been commonplace.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

She’d heard of them but had never witnessed their travesties; the colored evening at the theater in South Carolina offered different fare.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

And yet, he has undoubtedly been travestied by a press who must somehow contrive to terrify Middle England with a man who looks as if he celebrates New Year’s Eve by edging the lawn.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2018

Readers may be tempted to side at one moment with the defenders of Jewish caution and Jewish sentiment, however their instincts are travestied, and soon afterward with Zuckerman’s principled view of the autonomy of art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2018

Jay's great triumph is neither to elevate Matthews into a travestied hero, nor to confirm him simply as Patient Zero of modern psychiatry.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

New Jersey, lately travestied as an inferno of vulgar hedonism on MTV, is here shown to be if not quite an earthly paradise, then at least a garden of reasonable middle-class delights.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2011

At another moment Challoner would simply have refused to issue forth upon the world thus travestied; but the desire to escape from Glasgow was now too strongly and too exclusively impressed upon his mind.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Yet I labor day by day travestying it, caricaturing the beautiful thoughts that come into my mind.

From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

Peyrade had the power of travestying everything, even his wit.

From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honoré de Balzac

The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, “educative” by multitudinous audiences.

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been travestied by life.

From The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

If these prescriptions are observed, he says, travestying a fine Lucretian line, the diner-out may draw near to and drink deep from the well-spring of a happy life.

From Horace by William Tuckwell