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perversion

 noun
     
per‧ver‧sion [uncountable and countable]
1 a type of sexual behaviour that is considered unnatural and unacceptable
2 the process of changing something that is natural and good into something that is unnatural and wrong, or the result of such a change
perversion of
a perversion of the true meaning of democracy
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