perversely

Example Sentences

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Aggrievement and isolation, perversely enough, became the glue that holds the community together.

From Salon

"The peer review process was so cruel, it was almost funny, but I treated it as a learning experience and, perversely, began to enjoy it."

From BBC

Instead, perversely, their damaging business model has actually been rewarded for generations with federal subsidies from U.S. taxpayers — and in some years paying no tax themselves.

From Washington Post

A virtual production of Tennessee Williams’ “Camino Real,” featuring an all-white cast and perversely marketed as a “Zoomedy,” adds to the sense of being trapped on a ship moving full steam ahead into an iceberg.

From Los Angeles Times

Rather cultural and material exchanges that maintain local self-reliance and respect ecological sustainability would replace present-day globalization—which perversely allows goods and finances to flow freely but stops desperate humans at borders.

From Scientific American