Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for travesty

travesty

noun as in spoof, ridicule

Advertisement

Discover More

Example Sentences

It’s a travesty that 710 Indigenous girls and women have disappeared between 2011 and 2020 and also suffered the fate of anonymity.

By choosing to fight on two fronts—one of them an ill-conceived travesty—we set ourselves up for failure on both.

From Time

I love my students and respect my colleagues, and have been part of the community’s efforts, still incomplete, to make reparations for that travesty.

That this dynamic landscape could at once be so powerful and so fragile left me wondering what other natural travesties might occur if we fail to slow our planet’s warming.

At the series’ end, Peck asks if it’s knowledge that we lack — if ignorance is what accounts for the travesties of history.

From Vox

To connoisseurs of smoked fish such confusion would be a travesty.

Such travesty haunts the collective imagination, reflecting myth, history and politics.

Then there was that 80-14 travesty against Idaho, a team that won just one out of eleven games all season.

One of the defense attorneys for Zimmerman said he was glad the outcome did not turn a tragedy into travesty.

As happy as I am for George Zimmerman, I'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty.

The sailor, after the manner so often dwelt upon, is keeping up a pleasing travesty of sea-faring life.

My travesty of Plato was intended to illustrate the difficulty of close reasoning on such topics.

Though the proceedings had been a travesty of justice, they had been invested hitherto with a scenic stateliness.

She may, indeed, have been a mere travesty, though the hypothesis would be anything but free from difficulty.

The Franco-Prussian War was in progress, and this travesty was particularly timely.

Synonym of the day

Which one is a synonym for smile?Get the answer

Start each day with the Synonym of the Day in your inbox!

By clicking "Sign Up", you are accepting Dictionary.com Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies.

On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to travesty, such as: burlesque, distortion, exaggeration, farce, mockery, and perversion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement