perversion
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Meanwhile, the perversion of ordinary goods to serve a fully militarized state is encapsulated in the difficulty the boy has in finding white flour: None is available because it’s being used to stanch wounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Redford derided not only crookedness, but the perversion of procedure and hard work that resulted in the privileged mounting their success on the backs of others.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025
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
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 ● Aug. 17, 2023
“Well, first of all, this wasn’t of my making. I had an idea, and the result is a gross perversion of it.”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
"It was never going to end well, and his downfall was inevitable. Eventually his lies caught up with him and he is now facing the consequences of his deceit, and his perversions."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
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 ● Apr. 16, 2023
Unlike “Go, Went, Gone,” which critiqued the power structures that enable perversions and prejudices to flower, “The Laughter” seems to argue that the worst consequences of these structures are immutable and inevitable.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
English filmmaker Peter Strickland has become one of the world’s leading practitioners of bizarre genre deconstructions, with such gleeful perversions as “Berberian Sound Studio” and “The Duke of Burgundy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
One of those amiable perversions of the truth that so much embellish the morality of the whole affair.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
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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