Crossword clues for travesty
travesty
- Grotesque misrepresentation
- Disguise attempt to pinch an undergarment
- Attempt to grab a waistcoat in America? It’s a farce
- Distortion, as of justice
- Ridiculous version of the genuine article
- Grotesque representation
- Grotesque burlesque
- Grossly distorted imitation
- Distorted representation
- Crime against good taste
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, a. [F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest.] Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]
Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, n.; pl. Travesties. A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a
travesty of the first.
--De Quincey.
Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Travestied; p. pr. & vb. n. Travesting.] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman
toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor.
--Bentley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "literary burlesque of a serious work," from adjective meaning "dressed so as to be made ridiculous, parodied, burlesqued" (1660s), from French travesti "dressed in disguise," past participle of travestir "to disguise" (1590s), from Italian travestire "to disguise," from Latin trans- "over" (see trans-) + vestire "to clothe" (see wear (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation. 2 A parody or stylistic imitation. 3 (context pejorative English) A grossly inferior imitation. vb. (context transitive English) To make a travesty of; to parody.
WordNet
n. a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations [syn: farce, farce comedy]
a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, charade, pasquinade, put-on]
v. make a travesty of
[also: travestied]
Wikipedia
A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation.
In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to:
- Burlesque, a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects
- Travesti (theatre) (also spelled travesty), the portrayal of a character in a play, opera, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex
- Victorian burlesque, a genre of theatrical entertainment popular in Victorian England and New York theatre in the mid-19th century
- Travesty generator or parody generator, a computer program that generates nonsensical text (travesty), often based on statistics of an input text
Usage examples of "travesty".
From the jungle-edge to the river-bank, among the rotting pillars and along the broken piers they lay, torn and mangled and half-devoured, chewed travesties of men.
Henry drew a deep and quivering breath, and the committeemen stared at their travesties of shoes, a strange and silent gathering.
The mock-heroic mingles witha variety of other terms: comic-epic, mock-epic, travesty, burlesque, parody, hudibrastic poem, and Menippean satire.
As Roxburgh and I now stand at the left and right shoulders of the King-Emperor, so, in macabre travesty, Huon the Hunter and the Each Uisge, the most malign of all waterhorses, once long ago flanked their leader.
And though he was thin to the point of scrawniness, at some time in the not too distant past he must have grown enormously fat, for the flesh of his face had fallen into crevices, and vast hollow wattles transformed his neck into a vulturine travesty.
Voltaire with my translation of his play, with an exceedingly polite letter from me, in which I begged his pardon for having taken the liberty of travestying his fine French prose in Italian.
What sort of a miserable, spineless, cowardly, caddish travesty of a man do you take me for, to think I would let you go alone?
He was already addicted to certain delightful follies: a passion for concocting rare dishes for his friends, an exquisite mania for arranging flowers, a wild love of travesty, and also of gambling.
Only three demarchs had ever borne the name, and none since the War of the Travesty, two hundred years ago.
He strode quite sturdily downstage to the very edge of the apron and addressed the audience: "A mask, a copy, a travesty.
It was almost a travesty to have to use the draperies but once back in Eric's office, she asked him for something sharp to cut with and he provided her with a knife.
Some of the distortiotus are very subtle, others are blatant bits of promotional material inserted to support the Apostolic Succession and things like the story of Judas are a travesty of tlue truth.
Not just our own neural wetware, mapped out to the subcellular level and executed in an emulation environment on a honking great big computer, like this: That's not posthuman, that's a travesty.
As he listened to the ill-bred whining, he could also suck from Marq’s immense database a summary of recent tiktok travesties, and beneath that, background, smart-filtered by obliging microprograms, for the moment.
And the whole Siwannese mess was a travesty, perpetrated by cowards moral and physical, on an apathetic, indolent majority.