perverse
Example Sentences
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Adam Smith understood that protectionism creates perverse incentives.
Such perverse incentives flow from the government’s vast mortgage backstop.
Judge John Dodd KC told Wood Green Crown Court that Chan was a "perverse and depraved" man who had "clearly lost all sense of moral compass".
From BBC
Talk about a perverse incentive for businesses not to expand.
They expect us to “consider the source of their ideas, or the cultural influences upon them, which are often malign and give them perverse incentives to acquire the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ with which they live.”
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