Thesaurus results for TRAVESTYING

travestying

verb

present participle of travesty

as in imitating

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of this comedy sketch mindlessly travesties the hard work of relief workers around the world

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Slop is formulaic and impersonal, the aggregate of everything that is already imitating everything else.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Even white people imitating Black people don’t talk like that anymore.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

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The Onion, meanwhile, has set up its own Infowars webpage on its website, running videos of shows parodying Jones.

— Jim Vertuno, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
The popular national chain of gas stations and convenience stores agreed to settle a lawsuit with an oddities store outside Winter Park earlier this year over a collection of merchandise parodying the company’s iconic, bucktoothed logo.

— Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of parodying

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Former Ferrari president and chairman Luca di Montezemolo joined analysts and investors in mocking the model as ugly and decidedly un-Ferrari-like at a time where other luxury automakers were scaling back their own EV efforts amid low demand.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Thousands of comments flooded the post mocking the department for spending its time on such a trivial matter.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026

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While doing so has helped millions of individuals access the power of electronics, the shrinking size of transistors is presenting problems at mass manufacturing scales.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Alicia McCalla, 56, a fiction writer who has been doing voice work for five years out of her home in Atlanta, decided to ignore union suggestions and clone her voice.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of doing

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And didn’t Hal’s hunch help expose an alien that not only looked exactly like a human male, but also passed an X-ray without sending up any red flags?

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2026
The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, carving out a crater and sending up a plume of dust and rubble that scientists — and skygazers — are eager to observe.

— Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

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