travesty
tra vuh stee
- n a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- n a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- v make a travesty of
- But in so doing, they travesty Arbus.
- Joss Whedon saw his script for the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer made into a one-joke travesty of a teen comedy.
- Is it a travesty? Or could it just possibly be closer in grim, gritty spirit to the original Grimm-era fairy tales than the Disneyfied, infantilized versions we're used to?.