perverted

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What follows is a chorus of anecdotes, artworks and historical fragments tracing the pervasive — and sometimes perverted — roots of our everyday technologies.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024

Mahito is soon sucked into an alternate universe where the ills of the human world are on full display but perverted into greater absurdity.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

And Ben came with momentum, driven by fear as he entered the kitchen as a footsoldier bound by the rites of a perverted chivalry written into the family’s history.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy