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as in degradation
a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior
claimed that rap and rock music were responsible for the perversion of the nation's young people
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as in misuse
incorrect or improper use
if there's a hidden charge for the service, then that's a perversion of the word "free"
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Recent Examples of perversion
Originally, there was a title sequence that had nothing to do with John Doe and his fingertips or any of his composition book perversions.
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
This is a fun point of perversion.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Williams takes this perversion to be his purpose.
—Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
And this cultural extortion, rooted in naïve ghetto socialism — a perversion of the civil-rights heritage — plants a worrisome notion.
—Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
This is a fun point of perversion.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Williams takes this perversion to be his purpose.
—Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
And this cultural extortion, rooted in naïve ghetto socialism — a perversion of the civil-rights heritage — plants a worrisome notion.
—Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perversion
Noun
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Beyond infrastructure strain, our information environment also shows signs of degradation.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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What is clear, McLean and others point out, is that even the degradation of American climate prediction capabilities poses significant risks to the U.S. economy, to national security and to the country’s leverage in the world.—
Abrahm Lustgarten,
ProPublica,
24 Apr. 2025
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But now, Republicans in the state House of Representatives say the alleged misuse of funds may warrant a criminal investigation.—
Greg Allen,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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This is not to suggest that the IRS should scale back its oversight of the R&D credit, as doing so could lead to greater misuse of the credit.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned.—
Graham Smith,
NPR,
18 Apr. 2025
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Thao has since been indicted for bribery and corruption.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
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The mystery surrounded a bunch of kids tasked with gathering information in order to save the nation trillions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse.—
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2025
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The recent amendments to Maryland’s Child Victims Act, unveiled in a month dedicated to child abuse prevention awareness — April — are deeply troubling.—
Diana Philip,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Perversion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perversion. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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