travesty

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

The judges who presided over this travesty are still on the bench.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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

“So there shouldn’t be any paperwork, correct? No possible way for this latest travesty to end up in the press.”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

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

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

But what man knows of anything is that thing manifested, not essentially travestied, in that same thing's appearances.

From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin

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

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

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

The kitchen-maid was toasting a slice of bread at the end of a very long toasting-fork, which she held at arm's length towards the unapproachable fire, travestying the Flanconnade in fencing.

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

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