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travesty
noun as in spoof, ridicule
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She said: “Often insurance companies will refuse to insure spas to welcome people with cancer, which is an absolute travesty as far as I’m concerned, and contravenes the Equality Act 2010.”
West Hollywood resident Bill Bekkala, 65, sent me a list of Trump outrages, hypocrisy, vulgarity, lies, insults and assorted travesties that’s longer than this column and is still a work in progress.
“It’s a travesty for the veterans to see them get to come back for nothing,” he said.
“Marcellus Williams’ conviction is a grave miscarriage of justice and to execute him would be an unthinkable, irreversible travesty,” one of his attorneys wrote in a court filing.
Fayed’s then official spokesperson, Michael Cole, calls it "a travesty of the truth”, saying: "We helped Tom, and then he betrayed all of that help”.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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