perverse
Example Sentences
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They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.
From Los Angeles Times
This perverse economic incentive had a secondary effect of allowing ideological capture.
Applying only to certain carbon-intensive sectors, it raises prices to reflect the cost of embedded carbon and so creates a perverse incentive to outsource production of downstream goods.
In a culture trained to move quickly — and rewarded for doing so — it can feel almost perverse to slow down in the kitchen.
From Salon
This could have the perverse effect of preventing the deployment of renewables even when they are cheaper than, and superior to, fossil fuels.
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