How to Use perversion in a Sentence

perversion

noun
  • They fought against perversion of the health-care system.
  • But there’s more to it than gleeful perversions of genre.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone is friendly enough, and there's the right amount of perversion.
    — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 23 May 2018
  • Its inevitable perversion is implied in the book’s central premise.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The practice is known as rule by law, a perversion of what its practitioners like to claim is the rule of law.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • He was deemed capable of anything — of lying and perversion of all kinds.
    — Richard Cohen, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2017
  • There was a total absence of perversion or excitement on set.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Critics call these claims a perversion of the law’s original intent.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • According to Jackson, that is a perversion of the law.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • This was a perversion of what the revolution in pain management had been about.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Rumors of his bad reception at Ascot are a perversion of facts.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • They are supposed to be a purveyor of justice and this has become a perversion of justice.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
  • Sam's actions are a perversion of everything crypto stands for.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
  • What if there is a perversion in human nature too deep and too intractable for therapy to address?
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Malort, Chicago’s pride and perversion, is all wormwood, the herb that gave absinthe its bad name.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 28 May 2021
  • Moore and Ennis asked whether the world, with all of its flaws, corruption, and perversion, was even worth saving.
    — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • There is a quiet strength and sensuality, maybe even perversion, in wearing a snake wrapped around your neck.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Moral perversion exists side by side in Shakespeare’s tragedy with beneficent strength.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The family itself becomes the unit that keeps old prejudices and perversions alive.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Unfortunately, all of the kinky perversion has been scrubbed clean from the new version, with only a nice gay couple left in its place.
    — Sonaiya Kelleystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Offences relating to the perversion or obstruction of the course of justice.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 7 June 2019
  • This is to acknowledge the deaths from these extremist groups that have bastardized Islam to suit their own warped sense of perversion.
    — Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Qualified immunity is a creation of the courts and a perversion of our justice system.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Perversion of a black man’s attempt to take care of himself doesn’t come in the form of a pickup with floodlights and a Confederate flag.
    — Ian Graber-Stiehl, The Root, 11 June 2017
  • Most fundamentally, the book has been seen as an analogue to God’s creation of Adam, and as a perversion of it.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • At the time, the Postal Service was on the lookout for anything that seemed to glorify what its censors thought of as perversion.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.
    — Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • But not disclosing that fact, or not doing due diligence as to why more than one report existed, is sloppy at best — and a perversion of justice at the worst.
    — Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Drag, to Charles, is about the perversion of our understanding of gender, and by extension, ourselves.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018

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