perversion

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This also speaks to the hollowness that all ideological language contains, to paraphrase Orwell, in its swindles and perversions, its slovenliness and vagueness.

From Salon

But rigged and sham elections are a perversion of democracy.

From Washington Post

Calmly, yet forcefully, he argued that the defendants had acted not according to “military necessity, but by that supreme perversion of thought: the Nazi theory of the master race.”

From Washington Post

The family itself becomes the unit that keeps old prejudices and perversions alive.

From Los Angeles Times

“Republicans stopped the radical D.C. crime law, and we will investigate any use of federal funds that are used to facilitate the perversion of justice by Soros-backed DA’s across the country,” Mr. McCarthy said Sunday.

From Washington Times