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travesty

/trav-uh-stee/US // ˈtræv ə sti //UK // (ˈtrævɪstɪ) //

滑稽可笑,滑稽的事,滑稽的事情,滑稽可笑的事

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural trav·es·ties.

    • : a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
    • : a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment, or subject matter.
    • : a literary or artistic composition so inferior in quality as to be merely a grotesque imitation of its model.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    trav·es·tied, trav·es·ty·ing.

    • : to make a travesty on; turn to ridicule by burlesquing.
    • : to imitate grotesquely or absurdly.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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