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

No, the needs that have changed American life amount to a four-headed monster that has been fed by a perversion of market forces.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 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

“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