perversion
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That message — a howl of righteous anger at state corruption and the perversion of religion to serve the nefarious agendas of cruel, power-mad men — is what makes “The Devils” sacrilegious yet not apostate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
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
"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
It’s OK that the living and breathing digital archive of our fantasies is also an archive of our perversions and failures.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
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
On the other hand, real perversions and corruptions are often not so unlike externally to the doctrine from which they come, as are changes which are consistent with it and true developments.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
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"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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