travesty 的 2 个定义
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.
trav·es·tied, trav·es·ty·ing.
- to make a travesty on; turn to ridicule by burlesquing.
- to imitate grotesquely or absurdly.
travesty 近义词
spoof, ridicule
ridicule, spoof
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- 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.