Crossword-Solution: TRAVESTIES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Travesties | pl. | of Travesty |
We have 2 clues for the answer “TRAVESTIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Comic take-offs. | 1 answer |
| Mockeries | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TRAVESTIES (5)
Kirby Monologuist and minstrel, dancer and vaudevillian in his terpsichorean travesties, buoyant burlesques, inimitable imitations, screaming impersonations, refined comedy sketches and popular song hits of the day.
Soon was fully revealed, what the divines and philosophers of the old world never would have believed, that human nature in its essential qualities is good, not bad, that men by their natural intention and structure are generous, not selfish, pitiful, not cruel, sympathetic, not arrogant, godlike in aspirations, instinct with divinest impulses of tenderness and self-sacrifice, images of God indeed, not the travesties upon Him they had seemed.
Round the ruined houses the gray grass turned green again, and in travesties of gardens early spring flowers began to show a touch of color.
Miserable travesties of usefulness, ventilating the open air! Through the gaping windows, against the wall of the next building, I saw in mid-air the greenish Lincrusta Walton of what I guessed to have been the billiard-room--the billiard-room that had boasted two full-sized tables.
But one of the mowing, apelike travesties emitted a wild shriek of madness, and Koolau waited while the shrill cachination was tossed back and forth among the rocky walls and echoed distantly through the pulseless night.
Quotes with TRAVESTIES (1)
I look at Facebook a fair bit. I see what's posted. I see the travesties and illegalities of what police forces do. And I also see and understand that it is sanctioned by the general public - or we would do something.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1963–2008).