Needless to say, it was a pure invention and not a copy, or travesty of an old model.
We repudiate the hideous travesty which they have made, the hideous travesty which is credulously or maliciously accepted by assailants as a correct representation.
To argue that to come to Christ is a substitute for coming to God, is an inducement to halt upon the way, is an absolute travesty and perversion.
Skeletons with skulls of empty eye-sockets and set jaw-bones to make the travesty of human faces grim with menace!
His collar was a soggy mess, from which depended a dark red string in sorry travesty of a flowing tie.
Plutarch's hatred of superstition is that of a genuinely pious man, with a lofty conception of the Divine love and pity, who is revolted by the travesty of pure religion, which is repeated from age to age.
And in the fourth century, the fiercest assaults of the Christian Empire were directed against the worship which was thought to be the patron of magic arts, and a device of the Evil One to travesty and defy the Religion of the Cross.
She saw in this ceremony a horrible travesty from which she must escape at all costs.
What has this travesty of a hopeless marriage given you, but a pallid existence of curbed emotions and a stifled life?
They seek to travesty acts in which we justly glory and thanks to which, we have saved the Republic.
Monis and Clemenceau spoke on the Left, not to refute the arguments of the Right, but to travesty history, to malign and misrepresent, and to discuss subjects wholly irrelevant.
Thackeray was a parodist, a travesty writer, an artist in burlesque.
No doubt the THREE FROGS, London Road, Wokingham, is a travestyof Johnny Crapaud's Arms.
This was a travesty of an article which Sala was then contributing to the Illustrated London News under the title of “Echoes of the Week.
Willie readily consented; and when the article in due course appeared, it turned out to be a really remarkable travesty of dear Jo’s somewhat turgid and oracular style.
I have never, I think, seen such a travesty on Nature as that Papaloi of the vaudoux.
It was a travesty upon the beautiful service of the Church of England, and was so ingenious in its obscenity that I would fain forget it.
Every feature of its face is a caricature, a travesty upon the semblance of truth; the whole life of humanity a mockery of the very name.
How significant the travesty of the law in its holy of holies!
If I were to act upon the principles I advocate, I should not feel obliged to go through the travesty of an operation.
Its head was a grisly travesty of the human, its long arms hung nearly to the ground.
But in its dim, hideous features, which were a bestial travesty of a human face, showed ghastly exultation.
To travesty a noble theme is easy, for in this great world of ours the sublime and the ridiculous forever march side by side, and oftentimes their relation is one of great intimacy.
The native tendency toward intellectual badinage and literarytravesty persisted--and even to the present time it furnishes relaxation from the absorbing duties in connection with The Great Work.
In so far as it is a travesty it deals, not with the facts of Science and the Truths of Philosophy, but with the people and the things which discredit both.
Satirical comment and travesty devoted to political affairs had been common enough almost for centuries in France, but no satire of the kind had hitherto flown so high, or with so well-organised a flight.
Butler (who beyond all doubt had the Satyre Menippee in his mind when he projected his own immortal travesty of the Puritan party) is the only writer who has ever come near to its authors in this particular department of satire.
The Propos Rustiques, too, are interesting because they underwent a singular travesty in the next century, and appeared under a new and misleading title.
In the Battle of the Books the parody or travesty of the Romances of Chivalry is used to ridicule the controversy raging between Temple, Wotton, Boyle, and Bentley, regarding the comparative merits of ancient and modern writers.
He paused, and the travesty of a smile reappeared.
A man with a full beard, roughly trimmed into the travesty of a Vandyke, was dealing.
The Roman law will not permit such travestyon right, and I demand that you permit this man to speak.
The sense of justice cries aloud: This is a travesty on right.
The whole idea is a travesty of sentimental grand opera, the vocal characters being transposed so far as their fate and actions are concerned.
Then there was "The Mouse and the Garter," a travesty on Grand Opera in two acts that Clarence Andrews was to produce at the opening of the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom-theater.
I might name statesmen of solemn repute rejoicing to raise and to join in a laugh at their expense in such travesty of their habitual selves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "travesty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
