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

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

As the motions passed, one woman exclaimed in the quiet courtroom: "The law is perverted! The law is perverted!"

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2023

The light, his head, and the wall, he thought, as though he were an initiate or some perverted eclipse created without the consent of nature.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy