travesty
Example Sentences
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The judges who presided over this travesty are still on the bench.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
What are the latest updates on that travesty?
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2025
Department of Homeland Security, which supervises the agency, deserves extra credit for exposing this travesty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
Singer Charlotte Church has described the media's treatment of her as a young woman as a "travesty".
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025
He was the central clown in an unconscious travesty of that famous oil painting, “The Spirit of ’76.”
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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