Sentence examples for travesty in from inspiring English sources
Travesty, in literature, the treatment of a noble and dignified subject in an inappropriately trivial manner.
This is a travesty in a city as stunningly dynamic and exciting as London.
That has proved to be a travesty in many states, but particularly in Wisconsin, as I have reported.
The real travesty in this story are the low wages that have become normal in a lucrative industry.
In the years since that day, much has been made of the use of the iconography of terror as an allusion to travesty in movies.
The House censure vote split along sectional lines, and Mr. Giddings's re-election was regarded as a triumph in the North and travesty in the South.
How can Pakistan or any country permit such travesties in the 21st century?
All three of this week's travesties, in the US and in Israel, are hardly surprising.
He referred to her in his play Travesties in 1974, and everyone got it.
It paid the fines of victims of legal travesties in the Richmond area with contributions from readers.
Most controversially, without legal recourse museum pieces and specimens from an earlier age risk being travestied in unseemly ways.
