perversion
Example Sentences
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Advocates say the technology simply takes the principle of efficient pricing to its logical extreme; critics say it’s unfair, discriminatory and a perversion of free-market capitalism.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
He described the handling of the Alan Bates court case as "a perversion of the course of justice".
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2024
Mawlawi last year took a decision to ban events "promoting sexual perversion" in Lebanon, understood to refer to LGBT-friendly gatherings.
From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2023
It is hard to imagine a modern Indian psychoanalyst — Sudhir Kakar, say — turning him into an object of revulsion or perversion, the way Diel does with the chimera.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023
Nestor in the grip of parem had seemed like a perversion of everything she loved about her power.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing perversion
"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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"Oedipus the King" by Sophocles
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Ceremony
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