perverted
Example Sentences
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Mr. Mladenov has offered assurances that none of these provisions will be perverted to keep Hamas in power, and he has a team including a two-star U.S. general working to prevent that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
Corker also perverted another protest slogan into an attack on workers by declaring, “the whole world is watching.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
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
