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an offensive misrepresentation of what should be expected

If he were executed for this alleged crime it would be a travesty on justice.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

Helene's face is white as bone, her mind, like mine, unable to take in the travesty occurring in front of our eyes.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
I am a travesty, in bad make-up and someone else's clothes, used glitz.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
The nurse placed in my hand a shiny blade, and I realized then that it was a travesty and I was not a surgeon, that I had never cut into living flesh.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
"I have to think it's a travesty.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
It was revolting to hear his mother travestied into Esmiss Esmoor, a Hindu goddess.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
He was the central clown in an unconscious travesty of that famous oil painting, 'The Spirit of '76.'
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
How to explain this travesty of accuracy?
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
This travesty must not stand!
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
"What a travesty," Nix sighed, shaking his head.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
That word quoted from Mrs. Cadwallader seemed like a mocking travesty wrought in the dark by an impish finger.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
There is a kind of travesty of humanity over there.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
Was putting up a memorial for him a tragedy or a travesty?
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Lord Bolton had accoutred him as a knight, preferring to ignore the missing hand that made such warlike garb a travesty.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
Surely such a travesty has never occurred.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Archery was an even bigger travesty.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Witnesses parade in, there is the travesty of a trial, and Ercole meets his end in a refreshingly simple mass stabbing.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
No possible way for this latest travesty to end up in the press.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
The bitter mocking quality of her voice intensified, a travesty of a child's normal speech.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
He withdrew after a short travesty of a French bow; Abe pulled himself to his feet with the deliberation of a locomotive.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

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