travesty
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1. travesty - Noun
2. travesty - Adjective
3. travesty - Verb
Meaning
Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best” American higher criticism.
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.
The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist-almost fascist-society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
There is a human tragedy going on in Syria and all must do their utmost to put an end to this travesty. But facts cannot be overlooked. Syria has remained the only country in the region to resist Israeli expansionist policies and practices.
I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.