perverse
Example Sentences
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It said the low level of the standard benefit "creates a logical – but perverse - incentive for people to claim the health element too".
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
“The most perverse scenario … is a further equities grind sideways to slightly down, but no crash/no shocks,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026
They expect us to “consider the source of their ideas, or the cultural influences upon them, which are often malign and give them perverse incentives to acquire the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ with which they live.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Swenson may be a step slower in this regard, but he plays it perfectly by accentuating the delight Sweeney takes in the merriment of Mrs. Lovett’s perverse rhyming game.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Gaston's system seemed so perverse to him, but at the same time so effective, that he ventured to warn Amaranta Úrsula.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing perverse
Romeo and Juliet
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