travesty of justice
very unfair behaviour
TRANSLATION
travesty of justice = Hohn auf die Gerechtigkeit --- GOOGLE INDEX travesty of justice: approximately 130,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Amnesty International's UK director Kate Allen told the BBC, the process at Guantanamo was a TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE.
(www.spiegel.de)
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The Bishop of Liverpool has spoken of the TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE suffered by a jailed football fan as his family stepped up their campaign for his release.
(The Liverpool Gazette)
(www.spiegel.de)
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The Bishop of Liverpool has spoken of the TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE suffered by a jailed football fan as his family stepped up their campaign for his release.
(The Liverpool Gazette)
Did you
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travesty of justice
phrase
- a mockery of what is considered fair or morally right
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WORD ORIGIN
The word travesty stems from the French travesti (dressed in disguise), the past participle of travestir (to disguise), and further from the Italian travestire (to disguise), which derives from the Latin "trans" (over) + "vestire" (to clothe). This is also where the word "transvestite" comes from, which is a person who dresses and acts in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
The English "travesty" originally meant "dressed so as to be made ridiculous, parodied, burlesqued." Travesty and several related words are used to describe forms of literature:
parody - A satirical imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work.
burlesque - A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (that is, with mock dignity).
travesty - A work that treats a serious subject frivolously by ridiculing the dignified. The tone is often mockingly serious.
mock epic - The opposite of a travesty. A mock epic treats a frivolous or minor subject seriously, especially by using the machinery and devices of the epic.
(sources: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Online Etymology Dictionary, Glossary of Literary Terms by Robert Harris)
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SYNONYMS
(travesty)
burlesque, caricature, distortion, exaggeration, farce, lampoon, lampoonery, mimicry, mock, mockery, parody, perversion, play, put-on, roast, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff
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"Big bonuses to executives of poorly performing companies is a travesty of justice."
phrase
- a mockery of what is considered fair or morally right
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WORD ORIGIN
The word travesty stems from the French travesti (dressed in disguise), the past participle of travestir (to disguise), and further from the Italian travestire (to disguise), which derives from the Latin "trans" (over) + "vestire" (to clothe). This is also where the word "transvestite" comes from, which is a person who dresses and acts in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
The English "travesty" originally meant "dressed so as to be made ridiculous, parodied, burlesqued." Travesty and several related words are used to describe forms of literature:
parody - A satirical imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work.
burlesque - A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (that is, with mock dignity).
travesty - A work that treats a serious subject frivolously by ridiculing the dignified. The tone is often mockingly serious.
mock epic - The opposite of a travesty. A mock epic treats a frivolous or minor subject seriously, especially by using the machinery and devices of the epic.
(sources: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Online Etymology Dictionary, Glossary of Literary Terms by Robert Harris)
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SYNONYMS
(travesty)
burlesque, caricature, distortion, exaggeration, farce, lampoon, lampoonery, mimicry, mock, mockery, parody, perversion, play, put-on, roast, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Big bonuses to executives of poorly performing companies is a travesty of justice."
