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travesty

17:31 Jul 23, 2004
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English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Social Sciences - Law (general) / law - academia
English term or phrase: travesty
I want to say that the County President put an end to the corruption in the Mayor's office. I'd like to sum up that corruption in the word travesty. Ex. .... "until the County Pres. put an end to the travesty. "Is travesty too associated with things of a comical, farcical nature? Thanks
Marie P.


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5 +7it's definitely used with that meaning
Ltemes
4 +5Caution
Richard Benham
4 +2grotesque imitation
Clauwolf
3 +1parodie, simulacre, pastiche, farce
cendrine marrouat (X)


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
grotesque imitation


Explanation:
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Clauwolf
Local time: 03:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Nanny Wintjens
4 mins
agree  Elena Petelos
9 mins
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
it's definitely used with that meaning


Explanation:
The term is definitely used the way in the way you'd like, though I imagine the text already mentions the term corruption before you will use the term "travesty". See:

How to undo a travesty of politics
... 06/27/04—How to undo a travesty of politics. 06/24/04—Friends don't
let friends die in childbirth. ... How to undo a travesty of politics. ...
www.34millionfriends.org/ documents/news/denverpost062704.htm - 27k - Jul 21, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

The Politics Of War
Politics Of War Please See Board Etiquette for proper conduct on this board. ... Travesty
at The Hague - Wijnand vd Beek - (2) - 7/17/04 1:21 am. ...
p216.ezboard.com/fwarships1discussionboardsfrm18 - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

Proposition 227's Second Anniversary
Proposition 227's Second Anniversary: Triumph or Travesty? ... Politics are often nasty,
and ethnic politics take on a particularly distasteful tone, since in ...
coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/Prop227/227YearTwo.htm - 83k - Cached - Similar pages

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Note added at 8 mins (2004-07-23 17:40:00 GMT)
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Noun 1. travesty - a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
farce, farce comedy
comedy - light and humorous drama with a happy ending
2. travesty - a composition that imitates somebody\'s style in a humorous way
parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, charade, lampoon, mockery, burlesque, takeoff
caricature, impersonation, imitation - a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
Verb 1. travesty - make a travesty of
burlesque, spoof, parody - make a parody of; \"The students spoofed the teachers\"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/travesty

Ltemes
United States
Local time: 23:30
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexander Demyanov
2 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Nanny Wintjens
4 mins
  -> thank you
agree  Elena Petelos
8 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
4 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  Asghar Bhatti
4 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  Eva Karpouzi
13 hrs
agree  Rajan Chopra
14 hrs
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Caution


Explanation:
Normally, a travesty must be a travesty *of* something. It doesn't have to be farcical or comical, but it is, as another answerer has suggested, a "grotesque imitation" or making a mockery of something. So we can have a "travesty of justice" (say where a court goes through the motions of hearing and deliberating on a case but delivers an arbitrary and unjust verdict), etc.

Richard Benham
France
Local time: 08:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sol
27 mins
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agree  LJC (X)
32 mins
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agree  Patrick McKeown: I agree with you Richard, but alas usage (or abusage) of the language often dictates the accepted rule; unfortuantely our fight against sloppy, shoddy or dot-to-dot English (or any language) is a battle lost before its over ...
2 hrs
  -> I am not so pessimistic about thisone, although you're right as a matter of general principle.
agree  Alfa Trans (X)
3 hrs
agree  Pnina
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
parodie, simulacre, pastiche, farce


Explanation:
I found it in the Robert and Collins and I think it sums up the idea quite well here.

cendrine marrouat (X)
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Richard Benham: These are OK, but the first are of course not English. There is a sense in English too almost of desecration, which is more or less absent in your suggested French translations.
14 hrs
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