(plural travesties) ~ (of sth) something that does not have the qualities or values that it should have, and as a result is often shocking or offensive:
The trial was a travesty of justice. * His claim is a travesty of the facts. * a travesty of a marriage
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for travesty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is travesty a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, travesty is tagged as noun.
Does travesty appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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