travesty
noun
a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation.
travestied
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past participleof travesty.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof travesty.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
travestynouna grotesque or debased likeness or imitation.
Example Sentences
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And yet, he has undoubtedly been travestied by a press who must somehow contrive to terrify Middle England with a man who looks as if he celebrates New Year’s Eve by edging the lawn.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2018
Readers may be tempted to side at one moment with the defenders of Jewish caution and Jewish sentiment, however their instincts are travestied, and soon afterward with Zuckerman’s principled view of the autonomy of art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2018
Jay's great triumph is neither to elevate Matthews into a travestied hero, nor to confirm him simply as Patient Zero of modern psychiatry.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
New Jersey, lately travestied as an inferno of vulgar hedonism on MTV, is here shown to be if not quite an earthly paradise, then at least a garden of reasonable middle-class delights.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2011
Of very similar character is the so-called sermon joyeux, which, however, preserves more or less the form of an address from the pulpit, of course travestied and applied to ludicrous subjects.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
