TRAVESTY


Meaning of TRAVESTY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Not allowing her to speak in her own defence was a travesty of justice.

The Salem witch trials have proved to be a legal travesty .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

If we can learn from the travesty of the Hauptmann case, then it will give purpose to an otherwise senseless death.

Irrespective of the success of this integration, your claim was a travesty of the facts.

It seemed almost a mockery, a travesty of what should have been.

It was a political act, a travesty from start to finish.

The single-parent family is a travesty of human needs.

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