perverse
Example Sentences
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We had used $5,500 as our year-end target but lowered it to $5,000 after gold’s perverse performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
“As perverse as it sounds, a desperate employee isn’t bad for the employer,” says Eric M. VanEpps, an associate professor of marketing at Vanderbilt University and another one of the researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Maybe someday we’ll have leaders who understand the internet and the importance of avoiding perverse incentives.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
It followed the publication of a Social Security Advisory Committee report, external which warned of the "perverse effects" of the benefits system on young people's employment choices.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Does she think that I’m one of these perverse Mark Twain characters?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing perverse
Romeo and Juliet
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The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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