travesty

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

The committee said an employer NI cut for all under-25s would tackle this "travesty".

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Let’s put the nicest interpretation on that earlier travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

What are the latest updates on that travesty?

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2025

Then someone subtly begins calling her GLaDOS, which is the name of the evil computer in the classic Portal games—and if this session wasn’t a travesty before, now it definitely is.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

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

These were published at Paris in 1625 by Réné Moreau; in 1653 it was travestied by L. Martin; paraphrased by Bruzen de la Martinière in 1743, and by Dr. Levacher de la Feuverie in 1782.

From Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport

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

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

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

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

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

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