travesty of justice

  • 11travesty — noun (C) an extremely bad example of something; especially one that is very unfair or morally wrong and has the opposite result to the one it should have: O Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice …

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  • 12travesty — noun a travesty of justice Syn: perversion of, distortion of, corruption of, misrepresentation of, poor imitation of, poor substitute for, mockery of, parody of, caricature of; farce of, charade of, pantomime of, sham of, spoof of; informal… …

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  • 13travesty — UK [ˈtrævəstɪ] / US noun [singular] a situation, action, or event that shocks you because it is very different from what it should be or because it seems very unfair Jensen called the verdict a travesty of justice …

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  • 14travesty — trav•es•ty [[t]ˈtræv ə sti[/t]] n. pl. ties, 1) a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation of something: a travesty of justice[/ex] 2) lit. sbz a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or… …

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  • 15Miscarriage of justice — Criminal procedure Criminal trials and convictions …

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  • 16Aldrin Justice — Infobox Television episode Title = Aldrin Justice Series = How I Met Your Mother Caption = Barney taming The Cougar Season = 2 Episode = 6 Airdate = October 23, 2006 Production = 2ALH06 Writer = Jamie Rhonheimer Director = Pamela Fryman Guests =… …

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  • 17Judiciary of Bahrain — Bahrain This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Bahrain Constitution King Hamad bin Is …

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  • 19Mirza Tahir Hussain — (born 1 June 1970) is a British man released on 17 November 2006 after spending 18 years on death row in Pakistan for the murder of a taxicab driver named Jamshed Khan in 1988, a crime which he says he committed in self defence, as Khan pulled… …

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  • 20Nora Wall — (formerly Sister Dominic of the Sisters of Mercy) (born 1948) is a former Irish nun of the Sisters of Mercy who was wrongfully convicted of rape in June 1999, and served four days of a life sentence in July 1999, before her conviction was quashed …

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