perverted

Example Sentences

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Des Jenson, Benguit's barrister, said that if police had coerced witnesses to lie, "it means that they have manufactured evidence, they've perverted the course of justice".

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

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

Past victimhood should not be perverted into a right to harm.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2023

The light, his head, and the wall, he thought, as though he were an initiate or some perverted eclipse created without the consent of nature.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy