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perversion

noun as in sexual abnormality

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Under Lynch’s guidance, the underlying strangeness of Dune was able to thrive in all of its beauty and perversion.

From Time

The film falls squarely in that stretch of years when Hollywood had fallen under the heel of the Production Code, which, starting in 1934 forbade, among other obscenities, “any inference of sex perversion.”

Perversion is morbid alteration of function which may occur in emotional, intellectual, or volitional fields.

Perversion, misuse and abuse of our human powers should give us cause enough to be ashamed.

Perversion—prolixity, repetition, and excessive amplification.

Perversion—drinking in excessive quantities; drunkenness; and unquenchable thirst.

Perversion—superstition; witchcraft; and with Cautiousness large, fear of ghosts.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to perversion, such as: aberration, anomaly, corruption, debauchery, deviance, and fetish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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