travesty

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

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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

It’s a travesty, but the only class we share right now is AP English.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

“That even extends to works that address historical travesties that may have been commonplace.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 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

Yet honor has been as much travestied as liberty, and the crimes committed in its name are as many.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by George William Curtis

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

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

From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

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

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