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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Not allowing her to speak in her own defence was a travesty of justice.
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The Salem witch trials have proved to be a legal travesty .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If we can learn from the travesty of the Hauptmann case, then it will give purpose to an otherwise senseless death.
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Irrespective of the success of this integration, your claim was a travesty of the facts.
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It seemed almost a mockery, a travesty of what should have been.
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It was a political act, a travesty from start to finish.
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The single-parent family is a travesty of human needs.