aberration

The Civil War was clearly an aberration in American society and of profound significance.

In fact, the very notion of restraint has become an aberration.

His actions may have been an aberration but his thinking, sadly, is not.

But as the report pointed out time and time again, that dark era of violence in America was not some aberration.

How did this aberration come to pass and why has it persisted until now?

Even a thinking machine must have its moments of aberration.

But this easiness is only possible, in promiscuity, which is possibly a worse ill than aberration.

Nevertheless it would be imprudent wholly to rule out this form of sexual aberration from the causes of variability of species.

The spiritual culture of Greece an aberration of the amazing political impulse towards ἁριστεὑειν.

His instinct, which was stronger than his intelligence, told him that such an aberration was possible.