travesty
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“It’s been a running joke within the Travesty, about the absurdity of Confederate statues being so prominent on campus,” Rotnofsky, 21, from Laredo, Texas, told The Washington Post in July.
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2015
Her widely distributed 1903 essay, "The Travesty of Christmas," was not, as you might expect from a socialist suffragette, an attack on early shopping—it was in support of it.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2013
A Travesty "Old beers. I never usually leave soldiers behind."
From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013
Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University of California Berkeley and author An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending, has come to a similar conclusion.
From BBC • May 12, 2013
As for Charles Cotton, his "Virgil Travesty" is deader than Scarron's, and deserves to be so.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
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