perverted
Example Sentences
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It’s the culture that’s skewered rather than those who adopt its perverted values.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025
Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025
“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Mahito is soon sucked into an alternate universe where the ills of the human world are on full display but perverted into greater absurdity.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Even if he did think she was a perverted psychopath who wrote herself badly punctuated threats.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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