perverse
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Ma Moe San Pan's case highlights a grim mutation of the junta's mandatory conscription laws: mounting pressure from the higher levels of the regime has created perverse incentives further down the chain of command.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Nor does Saramago establish whether his protagonist is driven by a perverse desire or innocent curiosity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“You’re creating this perverse incentive that suddenly impacts all agents, because that’s the system that they work with because they’re reliant on a commission.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
My perverse love for lip stuff traces back to when I was 4 and first tried on my grandmother’s Clinique lipstick in Raspberry Glace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Dyed flowers are unnatural and perverse and, I suspect, obscene also. I can see that I am going to have my hands full with you people.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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