travesty

The return on this enormous taxpayer investment is a travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

It would be an "absolute travesty" if Ben Stokes does not captain England again but his future remains in doubt, says former skipper Michael Vaughan.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

He was detained for a year, as his attorneys and family were hesitant to post bail, fearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention or deportation, a travesty already enough for one misstep.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 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

Adina looked to Taylor to end this travesty, but Taylor was trying to keep the signal fire going.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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

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

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

New Jersey, lately travestied as an inferno of vulgar hedonism on MTV, is here shown to be if not quite an earthly paradise, then at least a garden of reasonable middle-class delights.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2011

In unpretending guises like these, the spirit of the age circulates among the crowd travestied in the fashionable epithet progressive.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

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

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

The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, “educative” by multitudinous audiences.

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

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

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

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