ubiquitous, omnipresent, all-present; general, widespread, extensive, broad, wide, far-reaching; universal, global, world-wide; epidemic, pandemic, rife, rampant. perverse, adj. 1. contrary, contradictory, Archaic. contrarious, froward, contumacious, cross-grained, seditious, refractory, querulous; wayward, disobedient, intransigent, wrong-headed; troublesome, vexatious, difficult; wild, unruly, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable; inconvenient, awkward.
2. aberrant, deviate, deviant, irregular, variable; abnormal, anomalous, anomalistic; strange, odd, peculiar, queer, incongruous; monstrous, freakish, unnatural; distorted, twisted, warped, garbled.
3. cantankerous, quarrelsome, irascible, contentious, obstreperous, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, short-tempered, hot-tempered, hot-headed, touchy, testy, churlish, crusty, edgy, Inf. grouchy, Inf. crabby, crabbed; peevish, cross, captious, petulant, piqued, vexed, petty, huffy; surly, snarling, growling, bearish, currish, snappish, waspish, SI. bitchy; sullen, sour, moody, splenetic, fractious, atrabilious, bilious, virulent, acerb, acerbic; spiteful, hateful, invidious, ill-willed, ill-disposed.
4. persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, persevering, indomitable, indefatigable, constant, assiduous, unremitting, unyielding, unbending, unrelenting, untiring, unwearying, unwearied, unflagging, unswerving, undeviating, unfaltering, unflinching, sedulous, diligent, zealous; obstinate, intractable, adamant, obdurate, resolute, inflexible, pervicacious, stubborn, dogged, mulish, headstrong, hard-headed, pigheaded; willful, wanton, deliberate, intentional.
5. perverted, corrupt, corrupted, vice-ridden, immoral, unprincipled, unscrupulous, dissolute, abandoned, profligate, depraved, degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, Inf gone to the dogs, Inf. gone downhill; malevolent, malignant, malign, malicious, maleficent, malefic, evil-intentioned, evil-disposed, evil-minded; evil, iniquitous, base, foul, low, bad, sinful. perversion, n. 1. deviation, aberration, anomaly, abnormality, irregularity, variability, misguidance, misdirection, misadvisement; misinformation, misex-planation, misexplication; misinstruction, miseduca-tion, miscorrection; delusion, beguilement, deceit, deception, trickery.
2. misuse, misapplication, prostitution, exploitation, misemployment, misappropriation, mismanagement, maladministration, (all deliberately) misconstruction, misinterpretation, mistranslation; misquotation, miscoloration, falsification, misrepresentation, subreption, eisegesis; distortion, Fig. butchery, Fig. mutilation; bias, coloration; exaggeration; evasion; embroidery, embellishment, adornment, decoration, garnish, titivation.
3. strangeness, oddness, incongruousness, peculiarity, curiousness, queerness; unconventionality, uncommonness, uncommonality, unusualness, exception, singularity, singularness, individuality, individualness; waywardness, deviousness, unacceptableness; corruption, wantonness, decadence, depravity, wickedness; licentiousness, lewdness, erotomania; (all with reference to sexual relations) fiendishness, psychopathy, pathology, criminality; monstrousness, unnaturalness, freakishness, Inf. kinkiness.
4. sadism, masochism, sadomasochism, SI. s-m, algolagnia, algolagny; fetishism, voyeurism, scotophilia, narcissism, exhibitionism; sodomy, buggery; pederasty, pedophilia, child-molesting; coprophilia; necrophilia; zoophilia; incest, incestuousness.
5. deterioration, degeneration, declination, declen-