perverted

Example Sentences

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The combination of the value of the FBI’s criminal investigative powers together with their danger if perverted, the report added, “makes the office of FBI Director unique.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024

"A man with the perverted and extremely dangerous views you hold should never be employed in the responsible position of a prison officer," he said.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2023

That Romantic view of the German landscape would, a century later, be perverted by totalitarian ideology — a legacy taken up by the young Anselm Kiefer in his much-debated “Occupations” photographs, from 1969.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

We rolled past the neat square of grass with its bright white bandstand, its perverted pulpit, and right on by the For Sale sign planted in front of the Kites’.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx