perverted

Example Sentences

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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

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

Perverted and corrupted, they have served as a basis for many creeds, and been even made the warrant for intolerance and persecution.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

The Imp of the Perverse, when he descends upon the printing office, sometimes becomes the Imp of the Perverted.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman