perverse
Example Sentences
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Rather, it is likely a combination of perverse incentives and suboptimal policies.
From Barron's
Reed highlighted the "perverse incentives" in the current system, which he said were encouraging families to cross the Channel in small boats.
From BBC
Ministers say the current system creates a "perverse incentive" to remain in the UK without status.
From BBC
During the 1920s and ’30s, nonlinear narratives of this nature would come to be seen as models of the modern mind: a dark, unknowable place riddled with unconscious desires and perverse complexes.
PBMs have perverse incentives to discriminate against the sick in favor of the healthy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
