perversion

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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

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

"This is no longer Russophobia, it's a perversion on a level I can't even name," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2022

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