perverted

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Economic science has been perverted, economic teachings has been perverted, economic policy has been perverted --- all by politics.

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  1. adjective Deviating from what is considered right and correct: a perverted idea of justice.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or practicing sexual perversion.
  3. adjective Marked by misinterpretation or distortion: a perverted translation of an epic poem.

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  • Economic science has been perverted, economic teachings has been perverted, economic policy has been perverted --- all by politics. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • But on moral and humane grounds this misunderstood, perverted, and therefore despised doctrine is equally capable of defence. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  • A Benevolent Provision; how perverted, and its Effects. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
  • Surveying the past, one cannot but note that often patronage and public favour have been strangely perverted--now cruelly withheld, now recklessly bestowed. —  Art in England Notes and Studies
  • Although men's ideas of the church became perverted, they could not entirely lose sight of the great Founder of the church, and they could not escape the conviction that the record of the founding of that church was given in the writings of the New Testament and that these writings were worthy of peculiar veneration. —  The Last Reformation
 

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