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  • noun Plural form of perversion.

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Examples

  • Attempts to interfere with this process under the notion that the market is “unfair” because it rewards the capable and punishes the useless, only results in perversions of the market that make things worse for everyone.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics: 2010

  • Sad, and troubling, particularly if his perversions were actually realized in other cases yet unknown, but not surprising.

    Antiwar hero Scott Ritter nabbed in teen sex sting. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010

  • In accordance with the same line of thought, imperfect states, although called perversions, are regarded by Aristotle as the result rather of misconception and ignorance than of perverse will.

    Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • Here we go - right back down to the stone ages -- the very thing that toppled great nations - the perversions is the big RED FLAG that signals the end ...

    Latest Articles 2010

  • Critics have lambasted the ASI for its clumsy renovation attempts, some of which have been called perversions rather than restorations.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Critics have lambasted the ASI for its clumsy renovation attempts, some of which have been called perversions rather than restorations.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Following the lead of the Sci Fi Catholic who is complaining about June being GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered) Pride Month and declaring pride months for his own 'perversions', I am (seriously) declaring June to be International Hug a Chaste Gay Christian Month.

    Keeping the Riff-Raff Out of Heaven nissa_amas_katoj 2009

  • Mitt Romney made a point of saying he's against "perversions" in a recent commercial.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • What this suggests is that the play rectifies related "perversions" in the sexual and the political world.

    Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb 2000

  • In so doing he made it plain that the "perversions" and "inversions," which reappear later under such striking shapes, belong to the normal sexual life of the young child and are seen, in veiled forms, in almost every case of nervous illness.

    Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

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