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单词 travesty
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travestynoun [ C ]

uk/ˈtræv.ə.sti/us/ˈtræv.ə.sti/formal

something that fails to represent the values and qualities that it is intended to represent, in a way that is shocking or offensive:

Their production of "Sweeney Todd" was the worst I've ever seen - it was a travesty.
Langdale described the court ruling as a travesty of justice.
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parody noun

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Lies, lying & hypocrisy

  • artifice
  • bad faith
  • be a pack of lies idiom
  • canard
  • charade
  • cobbler
  • flimflam
  • forked tongue
  • half-truth
  • hogwash
  • humbug
  • make sth up
  • perjury
  • polygraph
  • pork pie
  • porky
  • post-factual
  • post-truth
  • stretch the truth idiom
  • venal

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travestynoun [ C ]

us/ˈtræv·ə·sti/

something that completely fails to do what it is intended or expected to do, and therefore seems ridiculous:

The police chief called the judge’s ruling a travesty of justice.
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