英语词汇“travesty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	travesty
释义	travesty /trav"euh stee/, n. , pl. travesties, v. , travestied, travestying. n. 1. a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment, or subject matter. 2. a literary or artistic composition so inferior in quality as to be merely a grotesque imitation of its model. 3. any grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice. v.t. 4. to make a travesty on; turn (a serious work or subject) to ridicule by burlesquing. 5. to imitate grotesquely or absurdly. [1655-65; < F travesti, ptp. of travestir to disguise < It travestire, equiv. to tra- ( < L trans- TRANS-) + vestire to clothe < L vestire; see VEST] Syn. 1. See burlesque. 3. mockery, perversion, sham, distortion.
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