perverted

Example Sentences

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It’s the culture that’s skewered rather than those who adopt its perverted values.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

“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

A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline