perverse

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It said the low level of the standard benefit "creates a logical – but perverse - incentive for people to claim the health element too".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

“The most perverse scenario … is a further equities grind sideways to slightly down, but no crash/no shocks,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

“I’m not managing anyone else’s money. I don’t have any perverse financial incentives, unlike most board of directors, professional money managers, or management teams. However I do is tied to performance.”

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

At first glance the Babylonian system seems perverse.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife