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

Perverted, misguided, and uncounselled as she was, she was too young, too near the mother heart of nature, not to react from the false and the evil towards the simple and the true.

From A Face Illumined by Roe, Edward Payson

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

From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Oozing a sickly sweet, thick, cancerous juice, Its spongy flesh melts in the mouth, and in Its pensive poisons germinate the rank, Perverted sins of fever-tortured brains.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various