had been travestying

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of travesty.
  travesty

  noun

  a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation.

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• burlesque
• distortion
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