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Sentence count:100+10Posted:2017-02-13Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: contrarycorruptdifficulterroneousfalseincorrectobstinatestubbornuntruewickedwillfulwrongAntonym: docileSimilar words: obserververseoverseeinversereverseadversediverseconverseMeaning: [pər'vɜrs /pə'vɜːs]  adj. 1. marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict 2. resistant to guidance or discipline 3. marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good. 
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61. Is it not perverse, therefore, that some people are suggesting that those hospital trusts should be wound up?
62. Stalinism, in fact, accords all too perfectly with the perverse structures of Sartre's own theoretical argument.
63. Consultants were on lifetime contracts and had no reason to change. 3. Perverse incentives.
64. This evening Paul had been moody and perverse.
65. This mindset's assumption is a perverse conception of culture.
66. How perverse the gods, she thought.
67. A German lender succumbs to perverse incentives. Who's next?
68. It a perverse and ridiculous intrusion into your relationship.
69. This bear is perverse, dominatrix and hardcore.
70. I felt a perverse desire to accept his challenge.
71. Never did a perverse nature declare itself more prematurely.
72. In the downdraft from a commodity sell-off, the dollar would be the perverse winner.
73. A propensity to be saucy was one; and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good-tempered or cross.
74. Commenting on Genesis 9:6, John Calvin reminded us that we cannot hate even our most perverse enemies, because of the image of God in them.
75. However tough such a demand sounds, it changes the psychological balance in a perverse way.
76. More generally, all the perverse forms of seduction have the following in common: they betray its secret and the fundamental rule, which is that the rule remain unspoken .
77. At this movement she felt angry with the perverse Sir James.
78. After all, were not his own criticisms often questionable and his tastes perverse?
79. Hyun Shin and other scholars in academia provided early modeling of illiquidity and of the perverse effects of leverage during asset bubbles.
80. But there is a perverse parallel between the Treasury market of 1979 and 2009. In both cases, the market is willing to absorb an enormous increase in the float of US government securities.
81. A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.
82. Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition.
83. In contrast to the policy recommendations of most economists, relying on monetary incentives to tackle collective choice problems like global warming can actually have perverse effects.
84. But Disney doesn't need to go to Africa to see the effects of these perverse protections; it can consult its own backlist.
85. Hitchcock also a perverse thrill out of taking audiences on a voyeuristic roller - coaster ride.
86. The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof,[http://sentencedict.com/perverse.html] as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
87. Building huge air-capture plants to reabsorb the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels would be a perverse outcome.
88. Yuuzhan Vong technology is bizarre and perverse, though it is nonetheless effective.
89. Psychotherapists often take a perverse delight in criticizing other psychotherapists.
90. The junta has always shown a perverse punctiliousness in following the letter of its arbitrarily enforced repressive laws.
More similar words: obserververseoverseeinversereverseadversediverseconversetraverseuniversepersevereperseveranceintersperseservenerveswervereserveobserveferventdeserveserve aspreserveobservedreservedinterveneoptic nerveper seinterveningterseeffervescent
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