perversion
per·ver·sion (pər vʉr′z̸hən, -s̸hən)
noun
- a perverting or being perverted
- something perverted; abnormal form
- any of various sexual acts or practices deviating from what is considered normal; sexual deviation
Etymology: ME peruersion < L perversio < pp. of pervertere
perversion
n.
A distortion
involution, regression, abuse; see contortion 1.Deviation
aberration, abnormality, corruption, debasement, depravity, wickedness, depredation, degeneration, degeneracy, vitiation, degradation, impairment, self-defilement, vice, bestiality.
Preposition: that
- issue: Sometime you fought for the Lunars, protecting them from the undead perversions that issue from Delecti's ruins.
Converse of object
- endorse: We have endorsed perversion and called it " alternative lifestyle " .
- become: It therefore becomes a perversion as in the case of monastic ecstasy before mentioned.
Adjective modifier
- sexual: Or anyone could find a host of new forms of sexual perversion.
- moral: All moral perversion among religious people must have a theology to permit it, right?
- such: Disregarding such perversion, we have to realize that the sweetness underlying Divinity is one only.
- gross: However, on the strength of a gross perversion of I Kings xi.
- complete: I hope you see that the Crusades are the complete perversion of the command by Jesus to spread the GOOD news.
Noun used with modifier
- taste: Reports of alteration of the sense of smell, usually in conjunction with taste perversion, have also been received.
Possessives
- man: The idea that He is so " great " that He can ignore sin is man's perversion.
Preposition: of
- truth: But the heart of what he is saying here has to do with the perversion of truth.
- justice: Amnesty International said that the judgment was a " perversion of justice " .
- faith: Here was a way of combating some of the perversions of fundamentalist faith.
- language: No perversion of language has been fraught with greater calamity to the human race.
- law: They may even apply the most even perversion of intellectual property law yet devised: the software patent.
Preposition: for
- profit: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 Perversion for Profit All praise the Prelinger Archives for bringing us this unintentionally hilarious 1950s propaganda film.
All perfect republics are a perfect nonsense.The craving to risk death is our last great perversion.We come from night, we go into night.Why live in night?
Mr Mercaptan went on to preach a brilliant sermon on that melancholy sexual perversion known as continence.
War is, after all, the universal perversion.
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