perversely
Example Sentences
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Leavened by dark humor, “Blood Ties” is breathtaking in conception and execution, with a perversely pastoral finale.
Aggrievement and isolation, perversely enough, became the glue that holds the community together.
From Salon
So maybe it’s perversely apt that the Broadway revival of the musical “Chess” should feel eye-glazingly interminable, despite a cast of thrillingly good singers in top form.
The 60-year-old said he felt "perversely lucky" since the parents involved had passed away, sparing him "difficult conversations".
From BBC
They were followed perversely by torrential rains in 1861, which drowned hundreds of head.
From Los Angeles Times
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