travesty - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • justice: It would be a travesty of justice to remove them from their home.
  • democracy: This travesty of democracy has shaken the loyalty of people who've been in the party for a long time.
  • truth: Every travesty of the truth is a travesty of the truth.
  • process: A standard recommendation of child analysis would make a travesty of this process.
  • reality: The linear, static paradigm of mechanistic science based on interactions between separate, independent parts is a travesty of organic reality.
  • history: So there'll be shocks for those who bear this in mind when playing this travesty of history.

Converse of object

  • make: New conditions are making a travesty of the old.
  • build: The Spanish referendum was a travesty built upon a farce.
  • produce: Play acting and bad tempers rose in succession, producing a travesty from what should have been a fine contest.

Adjective modifier

  • utter: I think that was a complete and utter travesty.
  • absolute: Next to Hideo Nakata's masterful tale however, it's an absolute travesty.
  • complete: The BNP's claims are a complete travesty of the truth.
  • total: The decision to fine him was a total travesty of what he deserved.
  • great: This usurpation constitutes the greatest travesty of the American Constitution and jurisprudence in the history of this nation.

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