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Synonym of biography in the new manner, Strachey takes his work far more seriously than the host of whippersnappers who have travestied his methods in the six years since Queen Victoria was published.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marlon Brando may have resisted his role in history, may even have travestied it, but, in the end, he could not evade it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Heine was in the position of Werther, but a Werther was for the nineteenth century an anomaly; a lyric of this sort in yellow nankeen breeches would have travestied itself.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

This is a truth so vital that some authorities in their eagerness to enforce it have travestied it into the misleading maxim, "That attack is the best defence."

From Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Corbett, Julian S. (Julian Stafford)