perversion
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Many articles, papers and books have been written about this, but “Beef” boils it down to the system’s inevitable perversion of simple affection.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 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
Attorney Alexandra Shapiro called Combs' 50-month prison sentence "unlawful, unconstitutional, and a perversion of justice".
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 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
And a vicious fate it was to be: now he was faced with the perversion of having to GO TO WORK.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"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
He had never posed before her and—what a tribute to her character!—in her rather austere presence he avoided those whimsical perversions of the truth which so exasperated his wife.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
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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