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UK
/pəvˈɜːʃən/
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[ US /pɝˈvɝʒən/ ]
[ US /pɝˈvɝʒən/ ]
NOUN
- an aberrant sexual practice
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the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)
it was a perversion of justice -
a curve that reverses the direction of something
perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords
the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion
How To Use perversion In A Sentence
- This type of political perversion of the law was well known during Hitler's fascist dictatorship.
- Eugenics and ‘social Darwinism’ are perversions of evolution based upon logical fallacy and misapplication.
- Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
- But I know right from wrong, as perhaps only a scoundrel can, and I'll say that there was great virtue in the notion of Taiping - if it hadn't somehow been jarred sideways, and become a perversion, so that the farther it went, the farther it ran off the true. Flashman and the Dragon
- Norman Solomon: Well, what goes by the term conservative is too often a sort of a euphemism for dog eat dog, whoever comes out on top, we believe in the survival of the fittest – a sort of perversion of Darwinism taken into a social realm, where generally, the predatory nature in the animal kingdom of one category of animal inflicted on another is sort of mimicked and replicated. Failed Conservative Values: Norman Solomon on Dog Eat Dog Greed
- His craving for publicity has become almost a perversion.
- it was a perversion of justice
- Indian Independence of 1857 "-- in its way a very remarkable history of the Mutiny, combining considerable research with the grossest perversions of facts and great literary power with the most savage hatred -- were bound in false covers as" Pickwick Papers, "or other equally innocuous works. Indian Unrest
- That kind of oligarchic "free market" perversion of capitalism, as practiced by hack GOP pols like Bush and preached by wingnut media hacks like Limbauh, and not capitalism CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
- The most compelling argument, and the issue at the heart of the liberal perversion of liberalism, is in the area of humanitarianism.