perversion

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

Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics—a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"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

These delusions, however, are not attributable to original perversions of the reasoning process, but arise out of the perverted emotional state.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.