perverse
Example Sentences
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My perverse love for lip stuff traces back to when I was 4 and first tried on my grandmother’s Clinique lipstick in Raspberry Glace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hogg said: "The law isn't retrospective and we all understand that, but the fact that they are released early simply seems perverse."
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
This leads to a perverse system in which those who end up with lifetime appointments are the ones we least want to get them.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
In one passage of egregious sloppiness, Mr. Vance quotes a paper by Vanessa Brown Calder, formerly of the Cato Institute, in which she explains the perverse effects of mandatory parental-leave benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
It is, however, generally understood that a party has a pathology, that it is a kind of an individual and that it is likely to be a very perverse individual.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing perverse
Romeo and Juliet
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