(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.

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