How to Use perversion in a Sentence

perversion

noun

• They fought against perversion of the health-care system.
• 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
• The series is also a romance—or a sweet perversion of one.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• The result has been a perversion of the law’s original intention and a weaponization of NEPA from groups on both sides of the aisle.
  — Brentan Alexander, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• His ownership of the career home run mark (762) is a gross PED perversion of a sacred mark.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• Everyone is friendly enough, and there's the right amount of perversion.
  — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 23 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Malort, Chicago’s pride and perversion, is all wormwood, the herb that gave absinthe its bad name.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 28 May 2021
• He was deemed capable of anything — of lying and perversion of all kinds.
  — Richard Cohen, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2017
• 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
• This was serial misconduct and perversion on the part of Mr. Trump.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
• Its inevitable perversion is implied in the book’s central premise.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• This was a perversion of what the revolution in pain management had been about.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• They are supposed to be a purveyor of justice and this has become a perversion of justice.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 17 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
• As the final touch, a custom mix of Lust: Gloss – including shades peach perversion and flesh astra – married shine on and under the eyes.
  — Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
• Critics call these claims a perversion of the law’s original intent.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 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
• Rumors of his bad reception at Ascot are a perversion of facts.
  — Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
• What a waste that in practice, the film would turn out to be the plainest version of itself, all but bereft of the knowing humor and grabby perversion that makes this disreputable genre great.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 19 May 2021
• Offences relating to the perversion or obstruction of the course of justice.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 7 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Those Russians who are speaking out against the perversion of their country and their rights by the tyrant who calls himself their president are deserving of the same respect.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Drag, to Charles, is about the perversion of our understanding of gender, and by extension, ourselves.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
• There was a total absence of perversion or excitement on set.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• Because yes: The artifice was extreme, the wave was mediocre, and the whole thing was aggressively unnatural, near, and perhaps well beyond, the point of perversion.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 29 May 2024
• But its application to human pathogens is an obvious perversion of that objective.
  — Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024