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

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

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

While White’s stories typically focus on a sole protagonist, “The White Lotus” is an ensemble piece, with multiple subplots exploring the perversions of power against a background of astonishing natural beauty.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021

The rest divert themselves with the dwarfish satisfactions of recognized vice, the meagre routine of pleasure, or still more timidly with sport and games—those new unscheduled perversions of the soul.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells