travesty

The Daily Express focuses on the reaction of Dame Esther Rantzen, a key supporter of the proposal, who called the result a "travesty" and a "failure for dying people".

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Burnham's comments on policing prompted concern from one Labour MP, who told BBC Wales: "It will be a travesty and not in Wales's interest."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

But now I can’t help but acknowledge that the Tap-Out is a tragedy, and the relief effort a travesty.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

However, we recorded Scott-Wright saying that back-sleeping advice was "one of the biggest travesties of modern-day parenting".

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

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

In the replies, members of this mixed civilian and military audience are all in on the joke, gleefully picking apart these design travesties.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2023

She’d heard of them but had never witnessed their travesties; the colored evening at the theater in South Carolina offered different fare.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

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

The cultural detritus piled up everywhere, to be recycled, cherished, mocked and travestied, provides small — but nonetheless real — compensation for the spiritual deficits of modern life.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2010

We discovered an unexpected vein of humour in him the day he travestied a certain distinguished friend of Lord Helmstone's.

From My Little Sister by Elizabeth Robins

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

From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

If these prescriptions are observed, he says, travestying a fine Lucretian line, the diner-out may draw near to and drink deep from the well-spring of a happy life.

From Horace by William Tuckwell

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

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