travesty
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.
A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice.
- 2.
A pastiche, parody, or stylistic imitation; a burlesque literary or artistic imitation (typically of a more serious work).
- 3.
(proscribed, sometimes)(sometimes proscribed) An appalling event, situation or outcome (especially in relation to another outcome to which it is grossly inferior).
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make a travesty of; to parody.
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ine-pro From French travesti (disguised, burlesqued), past participle of travestir (to disguise), borrowed from Italian travestire (to dress up, disguise), from tra- + vestire, from Latin vestiō (to clothe, dress), from Proto-Italic *westis (clothing), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (dressing) from verbal root *wes- (to dress, clothe); cognate to wear. travesti.