perverted
Example Sentences
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Mr. Mladenov has offered assurances that none of these provisions will be perverted to keep Hamas in power, and he has a team including a two-star U.S. general working to prevent that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The officer is alleged to have perverted the course of justice, but police said no arrests had been made.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
Corker also perverted another protest slogan into an attack on workers by declaring, “the whole world is watching.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
We rolled past the neat square of grass with its bright white bandstand, its perverted pulpit, and right on by the For Sale sign planted in front of the Kites’.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
