perversion
Example Sentences
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A resolution approved by the Tennessee Baptist Convention depicted gender dysphoria as a “sexual perversion.”
From Seattle Times
Another woman wearing a red “Make Men Lions Again” hat touched off heated exchanges by claiming the event was nothing short of “perversion” and “child abuse.”
From Los Angeles Times
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
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