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perversive
adjective as in corruptive
adjective as in morose
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- dolorous
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- moody
- moping
- perverse
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- taciturn
- troubled
adjective as in subversive
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Decades later, the combination of dietary issues and disordered eating patterns is still a perversive challenge for many of us.
That quickly morphed into a narrative that black people are violent and killing themselves during the Civil Rights movement and now a perversive gawking of Chicago’s continued gun violence.
The signal for the opening of such a perversive campaign was the passing of that iniquitous law to which was given the name of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
So too the separation of the "useful arts" from the "fine arts" is unjust to art and perversive of right appreciation.
But against any perversive doctrine we must in all honesty take a firm stand.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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