to travesty

Examples

• All

• But in a piece in the New York Times Magazine last fall, even Schjeldahl noted that "beauty ... has been quarantined from educated talk," and that "commerce travesties it and intellectual fashion demonizes it."

  Academic text (1997)

• The pleasure that comes from exercising a power that questions, monitors, watches, spies, searches out, palpates, and brings to light; and on the other hand, the pleasure that kindles at having to evade this power, flee from it, fool it, or travesty it.

  Academic text (1995)

• She believed that Celia's marriage had but one purpose in the grand scheme of things: to travesty and defile her own.

  Academic text (1999)

• And yet, in travestying confusions about gender codes, this image hints at coexisting, sometimes competing, terms for middle-class, white masculinity.

  Academic text (1996)

• Eschewing aesthetics and evincing only the slightest commitment to naturalism, the painted regions of their anatomy seem to travesty their buxomly modeled contours below.

  Academic text (2012)

• The comedian's skit managed to travesty the serious issue, turning it into a source of laughter.

• In her novel, she used irony to travesty the societal norms of the time, highlighting their absurdity.

Synonyms

M

to mock

vsto travesty

• Offensive

209 3.4

Make fun of someone by copying them to show dislike

distorts representation to make the target appear absurd rather than mere imitation

M

to make a mockery of

vsto travesty

21 6.7

To treat something as silly and show no respect

focuses on distorting or parodying unfairly rather than only disrespecting

L

to lampoon

vsto travesty

8 7.7

To publicly make fun of a person or group by copying their style

uses distorted portrayal to make the subject seem absurd rather than public satire

How Distorted

to pervert

16 7.2

to distort

97 4.6

to misrepresent

71 6.9

to travesty

8.1

to parody

15 5.3

to mock

• Offensive

209 3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology