perverted

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“These are cheap laws that can be passed to make people feel good,” said Charles P. Ewing, author of “Justice Perverted: Sex Offense Law, Psychology, and Public Policy.”

From New York Times • May 30, 2012

There seems no reason to doubt that My Revolution, Promenades in Paris 1789-1794 really is the diary of Restif de la Bretonne, author of The Pornographer, The Perverted Peasant, and Paris Nights.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even as I write, a newspaper misprint assures me that typesetting machines are no protection against the Imp of the Perverted.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

But here is the promised extract from the sermon on “A Perverted Conscience.”

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

The Perverted World of Tears.—The manifold discomforts which the demands of higher culture cause to man finally pervert his nature to such an extent that he usually keeps himself stoical and unbending.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm