My brother's murderer got off with just a year in jail. If that's not a travesty of justice, I don't know what is!
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Travesty
//ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti//
Synonyms for "travesty" (169 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Strong matches (51)
Related words (84)
misrepresentmisstatemisteachmockmock upmock-upmockerymodelnimble witoverchargeoverdooverdrawoveremphasisoverestimateoverestimationoverkilloverpraiseoverreachoverreactoversell
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5 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- изопачаване noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- пародия noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
Czech
1 entries- travestie noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
Dutch
1 entries- travestie noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
Faroese
4 entries- avbronglan noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- avskepling noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- herming noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
- keipuleikur noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
Finnish
1 entries- irvikuva noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
German
4 entries- Farce noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
- Travestie noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
- Zerrbild noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- armselige Karikatur noun (grossly inferior imitation)
Hindi
1 entries- विडंबना noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
Hungarian
3 entries- karikatúra noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- megcsúfolás noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- paródia noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
Italian
1 entries- farsa noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
Norwegian
4 entries- farse noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- karikatur noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- komedie noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- parodi noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
Polish
4 entries- karykatura noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
- karykatura noun (grossly inferior imitation)
- parodia noun (parody or stylistic imitation)
- trawestacja noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
Swedish
1 entries- nidbild noun (absurd or grotesque misrepresentation)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
It's a travesty.
Source: tatoeba (1542617)
What's happened here is a travesty.
Source: tatoeba (3730254)
Under no circumstances will I ever consent to such a travesty.
Source: tatoeba (5380057)
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