TRAVESTY in a Sentence

Learn TRAVESTY from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For TRAVESTY, below is one of 3 sentences:
The main travesty is that the people who caused the current problem are now assigned to fix the problem.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of TRAVESTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
travesty
 n.  comedy characterized by improbable situations; treatment aimed at making something appear ridiculous
Classic Sentence:
Example Sentence:
1  Their marriage was a complete travesty.
2  Their production of 'Macbeth' was quite the worst I've ever seen - it was a travesty.
3  The main travesty is that the people who caused the current problem are now assigned to fix the problem.