travesty

The return on this enormous taxpayer investment is a travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

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 ● Dec. 22, 2025

What are the latest updates on that travesty?

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 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

The statement ended: "She must remain in prison – anything less would go down in history as being one of the highest travesties of justice."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

Then—watch out—the parade of CEOs uber-bullish on their companies no matter what travesties have befallen them begins.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024

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

Most of us are forced to drink our travesties straight and smile about it.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Little had she intended her words to be thus travestied.

From Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls by Robert Barnes

And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been travestied by life.

From The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

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

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

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

Yet I labor day by day travestying it, caricaturing the beautiful thoughts that come into my mind.

From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

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