Usually means: Mockery of something serious, distorted.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word travesty:

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  1. travesty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. travesty: Merriam-Webster
  3. travesty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. travesty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. travesty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Travesty, travesty: Wordnik
  7. travesty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. travesty: Wiktionary
  9. travesty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. travesty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. travesty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. travesty: Dictionary.com
  13. travesty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. travesty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Travesty (disambiguation), Travesty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Travesty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. travesty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. travesty: Rhymezone
  19. travesty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. travesty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. travesty: FreeDictionary.org
  22. travesty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. travesty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travesty: Literary Terms

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  1. travesty: Legal dictionary

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  1. travesty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. travesty: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. travesty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See travestied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.
noun:  A pastiche, parody, or stylistic imitation; a burlesque literary or artistic imitation (typically of a more serious work).
noun:  (sometimes proscribed) An appalling event, situation or outcome (especially in relation to another outcome to which it is grossly inferior).
verb:  (transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.

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