A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way.
A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
1 In a trial the top court in this state termed a travesty .
2 The fable in Greece originated in an intentional travesty of human affairs.
3 The party disagrees and has called the directive a travesty of justice.
4 The committee has been represented by critics as a travesty of democracy.
5 The Franco-Prussian War was in progress, and this travesty was particularly timely.
6 The great Dreamtime story was ever and always a travesty , a trick.
7 This is a production which robs the word travesty of any meaning.
8 Whitehall will become a symbol, a martyr to a travesty of justice.
9 The latest production of Madame Butterfly in the Gaiety was a travesty .
10 It's a potential travesty : a Street Fighter film without Ryu and Ken.
11 Yet I hear it was for me alone this travesty was enacted.
12 The village lay before him, desolate and ruined, a travesty of homes.
13 Their institutions are a travesty , their parties nests of avarice and vile.
14 But I know I looked upon him as a travesty , a caricature.
15 What Sky Arts and Fiennes did to The Kang is a travesty .
16 He's rather like that- a nightmare travesty of mankind, with huge malevolent eyes.
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