travesty

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

It was indeed a travesty that the two-loss Irish, winners of their last 10 games by double digits, did not get a spot in the national tournament.

From Los Angeles Times

Let’s put the nicest interpretation on that earlier travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Its assertion that “studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism” is a travesty of the scientific method.

From Los Angeles Times