Synonyms for perversion
pərˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃənper·ver·sion

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1. perversion

   Synonyms:
   abuse, misrepresentation, distortion, corruption, misinterpretation, caricature, sophistry

   Antonyms:
   use, conservation, representation, right, truth, portraiture, manifestation, explanation, interpretation, reason, correction, authentication, verification

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1. perversionnoun

   a curve that reverses the direction of something

   "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"

   Synonyms:
   sexual perversion

2. perversion, sexual perversionnoun

   an aberrant sexual practice;

   Synonyms:
   sexual perversion

3. perversionnoun

   the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)

   "it was a perversion of justice"

   Synonyms:
   sexual perversion

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1. • Curve
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1. perversionnoun

   Synonyms:
   impairment, injury, vitiation, corruption, debasement, prostitution, abasement

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1. perversionnoun

   Synonyms:
   debasement, vitiation, corruption, falsification

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1. List of paraphrases for "perversion":

   perversity, depravity, debauchery, distortion

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1. Doug Heye:

   Because of Trump’s perversion of conservatism, along with the devastating impact Donald Trump would have if nominated, I can not support Donald Trump were Donald Trump to win the Republican nomination.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   We take government-sponsored trafficking very seriously. It's a perversion of any government's reason for existence : to protect rights, not crush them, the United States will not stand by as any government with a policy or pattern of human trafficking subjects The United States own citizens to this kind of oppression.

3. Edward Dahlberg:

   Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

4. Geoffrey Berman:

   It shows a moral perversion on the part of Acosta himself.

5. Oscar Wilde:

   Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.