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travesty

[trav-uh-stee] / ˈtræv ə sti /




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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

She added: "It is a travesty that a woman can be judged as having expressed herself in the wrong way when she objects to finding a man in the women's changing room."

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

He was the central clown in an unconscious travesty of that famous oil painting, “The Spirit of ’76.”

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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