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noun

travesty

a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations

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Six example sentences with travesty, each labelled with its topic.

  • The studio released a travesty in which two clerks impersonate admirals and nobody in the navy notices for a week.

    Movies

  • Fielding wrote a travesty of the fashionable novel, giving his hero a coach accident on every second page.

    Literature

  • The revue closed with a travesty of grand opera, complete with a cardboard swan and a soprano stuck inside it.

    Art

  • The company staged a travesty of grand opera in which the tenor forgets his lines and the orchestra plays on regardless.

    Music

  • Victorian theaters packed the house with a travesty of the classics, giving Julius Caesar a top hat and a bicycle.

    History

  • The student revue closed with a travesty of the election, its candidates promising free ice cream and a four-day week.

    Politics

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