Harnessing electricity, said the man with the bongos, is a sinful perversion of the earth's resources.
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Perversion
Synonyms for "perversion" (227 found)
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desecrationdeviancedeviancydeviationdisingenuousnessdistortiondiversioneisegesisembezzlementenvenomingequivocalnessequivocationerrancyerroneousnesserrorevasive reasoningexaggerationexpressionismfallaciousnessfallacy
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false coloringfalse swearingfalsenessfalsificationfalsifyingfalsityfaultfaultinessfesteringfilthflawflawednessfoulinggarblingglosshamartiahemihelixheresyheterodoxyhyperboleillusioninaccuracyinfectioninjusticeinsincerityirregularityjesuitismjesuitrykinklitotesmaladministrationmalentendumalfeasancemalobservationmalpracticemalversationmisapplicationmisapprehensionmisappropriationmiscitationmiscoloringmisconceptionmisconductmisconstruction
Noun(4 words)
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misdirectionmisdoingmisdrawingmisemploymentmisexplanationmisexplicationmisexpositionmisfeasancemisguidancemishandlingmisinformationmisinstructionmisintelligencemisinterpretationmisjudgmentmisknowledgemisleadingmismanagementmispaintingmisquotation
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misreadingmisrenderingmisreportmisrepresentationmisstatementmisteachingmistranslationmisunderstandingmisusagemisusemisuse of wordsmystificationnonrealismobfuscationobscurantismobscurationoverdrawingoverstatementoversubtletyparodypeccancypeculationperjuryphilosophismpilferingplausibilityplausiblenesspoisoningpollutionpoor stewardshipprevaricationprofanationprofligacyprostitutionpsychopathia sexualispsychosexual disorderrationalizationsacrilegeseductionself-contradictionsex crimesexual abnormalitysexual deviancesexual deviationsexual pathologysexual perversionsexual psychopathysidetrackingsinsinfulnessslantingsophismsophistical reasoningsophisticationsophistryspecial pleadingspeciosityspecious reasoningspeciousnesssqueezingstrainingsubtletysubversionsuppurationtorturingtwisttwistingunderstatementunorthodoxyuntruenessuntruthuntruthfulnessvicevicious circlevicious reasoningviolationvitiationwrenchingwrongwrongness
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14 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 7 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- այլասերում noun (action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement)
- այլասերում noun (state of being perverted; depravity; vice)
- այլասերվածություն noun (state of being perverted; depravity; vice)
French
1 entries- perversion noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
Greek
2 entries- διαστροφή noun (state of being perverted; depravity; vice)
- διαστροφή noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
Hebrew
1 entries- סְטִיָּה noun (state of being perverted; depravity; vice)
Hindi
4 entries- कुरुचि noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
- विकार noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
- विकृति noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
- विपर्यास noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
Japanese
1 entries- 変態 noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
Russian
4 entries- извраще́ние noun (action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement)
- извраще́ние noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
- извращённость noun (state of being perverted; depravity; vice)
- перве́рсия noun (sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Your red cheeks give away your perversion.
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That man is abusive trash who's lied in circles over and over again. We have no reason to believe that this isn't just more emotional manipulation. I've seen this exact thing happen over and over again with other abusers like him in different places. Abusers like him use their perceived instability as social capital to keep their trust and good faith alive long after it's been crushed again and again by their cruelty and perversion.
Source: tatoeba (3283482)
Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.
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