travesty of justice
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftravestyandjustice
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travesty
noun[C]
uk/ˈtræv.ə.sti/us/ˈtræv.ə.sti/
something that fails to represent the values and qualities that it is intended to represent, in a way that is shocking ...
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justice
noun
uk/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
fairness in the way people are ...
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(Definition oftravestyandjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But they would be atravestyofjustice.
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There is no appeal from this, and it is a grosstravestyofjusticethat it should be allowed to continue.
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It is atravestyofjustice.
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It seems to be a completetravestyofjusticethat the whole of the agricultural industry should suffer a large blow because of that.
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That would be atravestyofjustice.
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If this is the case, is not the whole trial atravestyofjustice?
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To sit by as spectators to atravestyofjusticeis to condone what is being done.
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The proposals constitute atravestyofjustice, designed simply to get doctors off the hook.
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Is that not atravestyofjustice?
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The governors say that to impugn such a failure to them is atravestyofjustice.
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What atravestyofjusticeand sympathy all this is.
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It is a case in which allegations of gross injustice have been made and the expressions "travestyofjustice"and"shameful treatment" have been very freely used.
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That is atravestyofjustice.
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If ever there were atravestyofjustice, this is it.
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This debate is atravestyofjusticeand democracy.
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The result is that the landlord is to have it either way, which is surely quite the most outrageoustravestyofjustice.
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Thattravestyofjusticemust be challenged, not by wringing our hands in anguish, but by trying to do something and finding a way forward.
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An unofficial strike is a fraud; it is a completetravestyofjustice, and absolutely against the law.
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It is atravestyofjusticeto suggest that people who work in the town but live outside should not serve on the council.
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It seemed to me an absolutetravestyofjusticeto have people building hospitals and not paying their national insurance stamp.
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