perversion

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And if said pervert can find, in a deliberate misreading of the Constitution, some phrase he can twist to assert his perversion is a freedom given by the founders, not to the people, but to him and him alone, he will become invulnerable to pleas of reason, of balance, of fairness, and of the good of the nation.

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  1. noun The act of perverting.
  2. noun The state of being perverted.
  3. noun A sexual practice or act considered abnormal or deviant.

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  • It wouldn't be there the   temptation or the perversion, the corruption or what have you. —  TEDBUNDY
  • What we once called a perversion, we now call it an alternative lifestyle. —  WOWT - HomePage - Headlines
  • And if said pervert can find, in a deliberate misreading of the Constitution, some phrase he can twist to assert his perversion is a freedom given by the founders, not to the people, but to him and him alone, he will become invulnerable to pleas of reason, of balance, of fairness, and of the good of the nation. —  AMERICAN DIGEST
  • He was Sergeant Major in the British Army & won a medal for his combat service Gandhi sex life deviant sexual perversion, and political failures Open Letter to Bilawal Bhutto: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto-don't become a CIA pawn Renegotiating the US-Pakistan alliance: Correcting the price tag. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • I lost heart in the whole thing very quickly possibly because of my long running quest for increased perversion - in other words, for frank pornography, I didn't find girl love dirty enough. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
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  1. from French perversion = Spanish perversion = Portuguese perversão = Italian perversione, from Latin perversio(n-), a turning about, from pervertere, past participle perversus, turn about: see pervert.
 

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