perverse
Example Sentences
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“I’m not managing anyone else’s money. I don’t have any perverse financial incentives, unlike most board of directors, professional money managers, or management teams. However I do is tied to performance.”
From Barron's
They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.
From Los Angeles Times
This perverse economic incentive had a secondary effect of allowing ideological capture.
Applying only to certain carbon-intensive sectors, it raises prices to reflect the cost of embedded carbon and so creates a perverse incentive to outsource production of downstream goods.
In a culture trained to move quickly — and rewarded for doing so — it can feel almost perverse to slow down in the kitchen.
From Salon
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