perversive

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Decades later, the combination of dietary issues and disordered eating patterns is still a perversive challenge for many of us.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service.

From Time Magazine Archive

How well those Pharaohs, Men�s, and Cheops knew man as the most perversive, destructive and evil of animals!

From The Companions of Jehu by Dumas père, Alexandre

So too the separation of the "useful arts" from the "fine arts" is unjust to art and perversive of right appreciation.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

This perversive philosophy once launched needed only a leader to present it in a concrete and popular form.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)