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Definition of perversion : The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.

Synonyms:

sexual perversion, regression, bestiality, misuse, clean, misapplication, impairment, involution, turpitude, degeneracy, abuse, misappropriation, flagitiousness, depredation, mishandling, villainy, degradation, abnormality, contortion

damnability, wickedness, baseness, corruption, sinisterness, feloniousness, indecency, debauchery, sadism, depravity, sin, criminality, immorality, debasement, blackness, iniquitousness, impropriety, perverseness, reprehensibleness, sinfulness, obnoxiousness, degeneration, vice, blameworthiness, evildoing, villainousness

badness, untruth, falsity, inaccuracy, faultiness, flaw, wrongness, incorrectness, illegality, mistake, aberration, error, fallaciousness

Usage examples:

• To the same class belongs Thunder, found in the Pipe Rolls as Tonitruus, and not therefore necessarily a perversion of Tunder, i. - "The Romance of Names", Ernest Weekley.
• It is one of the hundred answers to the fugitive perversion of modern " force" that the promptest and boldest agencies are also the most fragile or full of sensibility. - "Orthodoxy", G. K. Chesterton.
• Gipsies do not, however, seem to regard it themselves, as tacho or true Rommanis, despite this testimony, and I am inclined to think that it partly originated in some wag's perversion of the French word chose. - "The English Gipsies and Their Language", Charles G. Leland.