travesty

That this dynamic landscape could at once be so powerful and so fragile left me wondering what other natural travesties might occur if we fail to slow our planet’s warming.

At the series’ end, Peck asks if it’s knowledge that we lack — if ignorance is what accounts for the travesties of history.

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.