perversion
Example Sentences
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The Chino Valley school board president, Sonja Shaw, rebuked Mr. Thurmond at the meeting and charged that the state’s liberal leaders were “pushing perversion on our children in every possible way.”
From New York Times
The French psychodrama “Madeleine Collins” feels like a domesticated version of a Hitchcock movie, with all the frenzied longing and perversion leashed up and reined in.
From New York Times
The former president has always used wealth and connections to skirt accountability — that’s the real perversion of justice.
From Los Angeles Times
In April, protesters disrupted one of her readings, at the Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library, with screams of “perversion” and “abomination.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed in our schools from the primary grades?”
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.