travesty

/trav-uh-stee/US // ˈtræv ə sti //UK // (ˈtrævɪstɪ) //

滑稽可笑,滑稽的事,滑稽的事情,滑稽可笑的事

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
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.

v.有主动词 verb

1
trav·es·tied, trav·es·ty·ing.
- : to make a travesty on; turn to ridicule by burlesquing.
- : to imitate grotesquely or absurdly.

nounspoof, ridicule

Synonyms

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.

/trav-uh-stee/US // ˈtræv ə sti //UK // (ˈtrævɪstɪ) //

滑稽可笑,滑稽的事,滑稽的事情,滑稽可笑的事

n.名词 noun

1
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.

v.有主动词 verb

1
trav·es·tied, trav·es·ty·ing.
- : to make a travesty on; turn to ridicule by burlesquing.
- : to imitate grotesquely or absurdly.

nounspoof, ridicule

Synonyms

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.