perverted
Example Sentences
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Des Jenson, Benguit's barrister, said that if police had coerced witnesses to lie, "it means that they have manufactured evidence, they've perverted the course of justice".
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
Past victimhood should not be perverted into a right to harm.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023
That Romantic view of the German landscape would, a century later, be perverted by totalitarian ideology — a legacy taken up by the young Anselm Kiefer in his much-debated “Occupations” photographs, from 1969.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
“Because I honestly don’t want to. Besides, you ought to get a date. It will look perverted and I can’t dance.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
