perverse
Example Sentences
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You could liken it to Poe's "Imp of the Perverse," doing something for the very reason you know you should not.
From Salon • May 6, 2023
Perverse invention and rational coherence lock into each other at weird, compelling angles in his work.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2019
A version of this op-ed appears in print on January 24, 2014, on page A27 of the with the headline: Perverse Primaries.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2014
Like all of Sallitt’s films, Polly Perverse is feminist without ever trumpeting that or any other ideology.
From Slate • Sep. 26, 2013
Was it the Imp of the Perverse that caused him to positively decline, and to persist that "Dreamland" was all he had to offer just then?
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton
Vocabulary lists containing perverse
Romeo and Juliet
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