travesty
travesty(
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)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (pejorative) (caricature)
An offensive word or phrase used to degrade a person or group of people based on race, gender, sexual preference, etc. (e.g., redneck).
a. la parodia (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
After a travesty of a trial, the fraudster was acquitted.Tras un juicio que fue una parodia, el autor del fraude quedó absuelto.
b. la burda parodia (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The director has given us a movie that is a travesty of the original book.El director nos presenta una película que es una burda parodia del libro original.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g., I bought a book.).
a. parodiar
The magazine published cartoons travestying the image of the monarch.La revista publicó caricaturas que parodiaban la figura del monarca.
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