Perversion

(n.) A turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or purpose; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.

Thesaurus Entries

aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abstractionism, abuse, abuse of office, abuse of terms, adulteration, apparent soundness, befouling, befoulment, casuistry, catachresis, circularity, college of Laputa, coloring, confabulation, contamination, contorting, conversion, corrupt administration, corruption, debasement, debauchery, defalcation, defectiveness, defilement, deformation, delusion, depravity, desecration, deviance, deviancy, deviation, disingenuousness, distortion, diversion, eisegesis, embezzlement, envenoming, equivocalness, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, evasive reasoning, exaggeration, expressionism, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, festering, flaw, flawedness, fouling, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, hyperbole, illusion, inaccuracy, infection, injustice, insincerity, irregularity, jesuitism, jesuitry, kink, litotes, maladministration, malentendu, malfeasance, malobservation, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconduct, misconstruction, misdirection, misdoing, misdrawing, misemployment, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misguidance, mishandling, misinformation, misinstruction, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misknowledge, misleading, mismanagement, mispainting, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, mystification, nonrealism, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, overdrawing, overstatement, oversubtlety, peccancy, peculation, perjury, philosophism, pilfering, plausibility, plausibleness, poisoning, pollution, poor stewardship, prevarication, profanation, prostitution, psychopathia sexualis, psychosexual disorder, rationalization, self-contradiction, sex crime, sexual abnormality, sexual deviance, sexual deviation, sexual pathology, sexual perversion, sexual psychopathy, sidetracking, sin, sinfulness, slanting, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, squeezing, straining, subtlety, subversion, suppuration, torturing, twisting, understatement, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vice, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, violation, vitiation, wrenching, wrong, wrongness