Travesty
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Travesty is a literary and artistic term which has demonstrated a vast range and shift in meaning over the years, from the notion of "a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment, or subject matter"[1] to more negative definitions as "a literary or artistic composition so inferior in quality as to be merely a grotesque imitation of its model"[2].
In a more general sense often found today in the expression "a travesty of justice".
Sources
"Travesty" in Dictionary.com (at http://www.dictionary.com/browse/travesty?)
