travesty

Anwar said it would be a "travesty of justice" and a betrayal of Emma Caldwell if Police Scotland were excluded from the investigation.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

To let the moment pass without taking action would be a travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

What are the latest updates on that travesty?

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2025

“We believe the judiciary can step in to prevent this travesty of justice,” Cassell said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Someone else remarks that it would be a travesty to dye over such a color, a shocking red much brighter than their mother’s auburn.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

However, we recorded Scott-Wright saying that back-sleeping advice was "one of the biggest travesties of modern-day parenting".

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

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

“There are two travesties that are juxtaposed here,” Oliver said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

In the replies, members of this mixed civilian and military audience are all in on the joke, gleefully picking apart these design travesties.

From Slate ● Feb. 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

Thus does Owen Brademas, searching in “The Names” for the resolution of a fallen world in a language of divine order, find that search travestied by a murderous cult seeking similar ends.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2016

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

How it was they did not understand her French I do not know, it was so like travestied Italian.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

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

The kitchen-maid was toasting a slice of bread at the end of a very long toasting-fork, which she held at arm's length towards the unapproachable fire, travestying the Flanconnade in fencing.

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

There was evidently a regular manufacture for this festival of costumes simulating and travestying those of the Imperial Body Guard.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White

It not only conveys the travestying idea, but also sufficiently conveys the original thought travestied.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge

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