perverted
Example Sentences
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No one in 1787 could have foreseen Trump, but history had taught the founders about the type: men of “perverted ambition” who “hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country.”
From Washington Post
"I thought, 'Is this a practical joke? Is someone doing something perverted? This is really, really strange,'" she said in her testimony.
From BBC
The hit, she said, made her briefly think that the collision could have been anything from an intentional assault to “something perverted” to a practical joke.
From New York Times
Geordi responds, “Lore has a perverted sense of what it means to be human.”
From New York Times
"Is this a practical joke. Is someone doing something perverted?" she told the court she recalled thinking in that moment.
From BBC
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