perversive

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Decades later, the combination of dietary issues and disordered eating patterns is still a perversive challenge for many of us.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

This perversive philosophy once launched needed only a leader to present it in a concrete and popular form.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

How well those Pharaohs, Men�s, and Cheops knew man as the most perversive, destructive and evil of animals!

From The Companions of Jehu by Dumas père, Alexandre