perverted
Example Sentences
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What follows is a chorus of anecdotes, artworks and historical fragments tracing the pervasive — and sometimes perverted — roots of our everyday technologies.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024
"A man with the perverted and extremely dangerous views you hold should never be employed in the responsible position of a prison officer," he said.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2023
As the motions passed, one woman exclaimed in the quiet courtroom: "The law is perverted! The law is perverted!"
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2023
And Ben came with momentum, driven by fear as he entered the kitchen as a footsoldier bound by the rites of a perverted chivalry written into the family’s history.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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