perverted
Example Sentences
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It’s the culture that’s skewered rather than those who adopt its perverted values.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 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
Many have commended her for speaking out, and have condemned the "arrogance" of her blackmailer, and his "perverted" behaviour.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2023
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
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