Although most often used to refer to some sort of psychological corruption or abnormal behavior (usually sexual), the word perversion can actually refer to anything that is used for a distorted or wrong purpose.
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.
Noun
the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
Noun
an aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse
Noun
a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"
n.
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted;
a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or
object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong
end or use.
Perversion
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.
Usage Examples
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Other Usage ExamplesMore people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
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