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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for travestying
  1. imitating
  2. parodying
  3. mocking
  4. doing
  5. sending up
Verb
  • The league immediately decided Juszczyk was imitating drinking beer.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than taking advantage of genuine quantum effects, Scholes proposes, life might be imitating them instead.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of imitating
Verb
  • The White House announced Arcade on social media with a series of animations parodying Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo loading screens.
    — Lou Kesten, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Over two months, the protesters and their supporters – most who appeared to be digitally-savvy GenZ – used Instagram and Snapchat to connect, organize, and share countless reels parodying the government.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of parodying
Verb
  • No one, however, much less a dubious Spanish public who were more used to mocking than celebrating their country’s best GC rider in a generation, believed that Mas could win the race.
    — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Hansen can be cruelly mocking towards his oft-flustered but extremely professional producer Andie Bender (an astonishingly good Merritt Wever).
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of mocking
Verb
  • Sure, and that self-deprecation is also a fundamental principle of comedy and humor, which is a lot of what your stories are doing too.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Give us a decade to get another lifetime to keep doing a little bit better.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of doing
Verb
  • In Southeast Asia, wildfires are torching forests and peatlands in Indonesia, sending up plumes of toxic haze.
    — EDNA TARIGAN, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of sending up
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“Travestying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/travestying. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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