Travesty Sentence Examples

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  • It was a travesty of justice to remove them from their home.

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  • Every lie about the war is a travesty of the truth.

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  • I think that was a complete and utter travesty.

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  • The building had "become a pathetic travesty of the original design," as Walter Ison sadly noted.

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  • This travesty of democracy has shaken the loyalty of people who've been in the party for a long time.

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  • The decision to fine him was a total travesty of what he deserved.

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  • Lui et elle, the rejoinder of the poet's brother Paul de Musset, was even more a travesty of the facts with no redeeming graces of style.

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  • The way the project evolved was a travesty of organic reality.

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  • In associating St Pelagia with St Marina, St Margaret, and others, of whom either the name or the legend recalls Pelagia, Hermann Usener has endeavoured to show by a series of subtle deductions that this saint is only a Christian travesty of Aphrodite.

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  • The procedure was a travesty of justice.

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  • Its affectations were burlesqued in Gilbert and Sullivan's travesty Patience (1881), which practically killed by ridicule the absurdities to which it had grown.

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  • His metaphysic was a travesty rather than a reproduction of that of his master.

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  • Far from broadening the UK's palate, supermarkets have conditioned us to accept a travesty of the real shopping experience.

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  • The committee made a travesty of this process.

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  • The BNP's claims are a complete travesty of the truth.

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  • She respected the bishops only as supporters of her throne; and, although the well-known letter beginning "Proud Prelate" is an 18th-century forgery, it is hardly a travesty of Elizabeth's attitude.

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  • Of Christianity he can have been able to learn very little, even in Medina; as may be seen from the absurd travesty of the institution of the Eucharist in v.

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  • This travesty was built upon a farce.

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  • Play acting and bad tempers rose in succession, producing a travesty from what should have been a fine contest.

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  • It would be a travesty of justice to remove them from their home.

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  • This travesty of democracy has shaken the loyalty of people who 've been in the party for a long time.

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  • A Sunday without a brunch is a sad Sunday and a brunch without a Mimosa is a travesty indeed.

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  • Still, Lana wasn't convinced she wanted to discover what lay behind the door after the travesty along the road.

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  • The taking of the lands of the American Indian was a travesty of history.

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  • Much of the legend is a running travesty of the true history of the conqueror.

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  • A standard recommendation of child analysis would make a travesty of this process.

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  • The linear, static paradigm of mechanistic science based on interactions between separate, independent parts is a travesty of organic reality.

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  • So there'll be shocks for those who bear this in mind when playing this travesty of history.

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  • New conditions are making a travesty of the old.

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  • The Spanish referendum was a travesty built upon a farce.

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  • Next to Hideo Nakata 's masterful tale however, it 's an absolute travesty.

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  • The BNP 's claims are a complete travesty of the truth.

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  • In a country where our core values of freedom and liberty are protected by the sacrifices of these men and women, the fact that a single veteran would be homeless is a travesty.

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  • The sad travesty of the partial third season should be a lesson to television producers everywhere - if your show is a romance, and one of your two leads decides to leave, cancel the show.

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  • Every travesty of the truth is a travesty of the truth.

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  • This usurpation constitutes the greatest travesty of the American Constitution and jurisprudence in the history of this nation.

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