Travesty is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRAVESTY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to parody
• represent in a false, absurd, or distorted way
• To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
• make a travesty of
• make or be a travesty of
NOUN:
• a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something
• grotesque imitation or mockery
• A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
• a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
• a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody\'s style, usually in a humorous way
ADJECTIVE:
• Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.

Words related to TRAVESTY

travestied14 travesties13 travestying18

Words that contain TRAVESTY

travestying18

How to use TRAVESTY in a sentence

• But it would be a travesty of the truth to assert that Germany has not envied her that position, together with the advantages arising from it.
• It was a travesty on running, to be sure, but it was the best he could do.
• Scott was earnest in assuring Lockhart that he had written in no spirit of travesty, but only to test whether he would be likely to succeed in narrative verse of the same pattern.
• At intervals, from the rear, sounded the war whoop travesty.
• In proportion as the representation of the plant was a secondary object, the travesty has been more and more complete.
• Monsieur was a curious travesty of his elder brother.
• The administration of the colony by these functionaries was a travesty.
• An awful travesty upon a court of justice was established in that historic hall in the Palais de Justice.
• And he wondered if Natalie felt at all as he did, the vast room and the two men serving, with Graham no one knew where, and that travesty of Christmas joy between them.
• It contains noble lines, but is historically a mere travesty of the life and death of the heroine.
• It was a very travesty of justice that I was looking at, and no true trial at all.
• Yet this is not a late travesty of Buddhism but a relatively early development which must have begun about the Christian era.
• In this travesty of the Mass a young girl, dressed to represent the Virgin, riding on an ass and carrying a child in her arms, was conducted to the church door.
• Rainham smiled as he recognised occasionally the grotesque travesty of a familiar face.
• He did not travesty the sacred Word nor set his anger to music.
• It is a mere travesty on freedom, a fiction of the philosophers, which inspires respect only so long as one has not pierced the disguise of its respectable name.
• Nowadays a woman is rarely hanged for infanticide, and it is a mere travesty of justice to pass on her the death sentence, well knowing that it will never be executed.
• The playwright has striven to transfer from the field to the stage a cotton-picking scene and has made a travesty of it.
• This speckled travesty, this photographic mummy, is but one example out of many.
• It is not the truths and ideals of Jesus that offend them, but the travesty of those truths and ideals in the average life of Christians.
• The character of Jesus displays love in its supreme type, but it is wholly lacking in that weak-featured travesty of love which we call amiability.
• The ancient race which appeared for the last time in this travesty of the fashion of Queen Anne, still showed some touch of its ancient beauty.
• The Turks were literally paralysed by the audacity of the effort and made a mere travesty of resistance, in comparison with their stubbornness during the day.
• For six hours was this travesty of battle maintained.
• Bonner was very angry at this travesty of religion, and caused the effigy to be publicly displayed at Paul’s Cross during sermon time.
• In a few hours now he would have taken a wife, and whatever travesty of marriage resulted, he would have to keep away from Lily.
• So when Field was safely off for Fremont we started to produce a column that would be a travesty on his favorite expressions at the expense of his titled friends.
• If I tried till my death-day, I should never arrive at any thing but a miserable travesty.
• Parker succeeds in making us all, willing and unwilling, promise to travesty ourselves.
• It was not one of those things that could long endure the assaults of travesty.
• The whole thing was so malignant and ingenious a travesty of what had happened, that I was entirely at a loss to know what to say.
• The village lay before him, desolate and ruined, a travesty of homes.
• There is a kind of travesty of humanity over there.

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