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perverted

[per-vur-tid] / pərˈvɜr tɪd /


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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

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

He noticed Gibbon’s acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello’s love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago’s perverted love of Othello.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison