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perversion

noun as in sexual abnormality

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"It was never going to end well, and his downfall was inevitable. Eventually his lies caught up with him and he is now facing the consequences of his deceit, and his perversions."

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Redford derided not only crookedness but the perversion of procedure and hard work that resulted in the privileged mounting their success on the backs of others.

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Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., called the arrests a “gross abuse of federal resources” and a “disturbing perversion of justice.”

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Additionally, the writers indict the perversions committed in the name of Christianity, whether in Gilead or these United States, in ways that have particular resonance in these concluding episodes.

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The singer identifies as queer - something that Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard described as a perversion.

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

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