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

We begin our citations from Bourdaloue with an extract from a sermon of his on “A Perverted Conscience.”

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Perverted tastes are overcome; the way to live we learn; And all who will its rules obey, a rich experience earn.

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah

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