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Meanings of perverse in English
Synonyms
Examples for "immoral"
Examples for "immoral"
1
And therefore it would be immoral to have something be really dangerous.
2
New Orleans is doubtless the most immoral place in the United States.
3
Nor is it the immoral nature of the deviation from the normal.
4
The most immoral of the people of this time are the Christians.
5
The believer and the unbeliever we often see equally base, equally immoral.
1
CATALOG: Was your experience similar to the process that perverted Mendicant Bias?
2
Right now it was just an artist's essential suffering, a perverted muse.
3
And at the concert he perverted the text to gratify his vanity.
4
But a repressed sexuality was almost as dangerous as a perverted one.
5
Now these people were quite honest and in a perverted way courageous.
1
We exercise desire in the wrong ways because our minds are depraved.
2
They are of two classes-thenaturally depraved and the victim of circumstances.
3
Either principle alone makes an ugly and depraved form of natural character.
4
Thus it depraved the nature of all who were connected with it.
5
These systems are well adapted to the depraved tastes of the age.
1
Where in the depths of history has the word 'reprobate' gone missing?
2
Perhaps he passed the night with his friends abusing that reprobate Bonaparte.
3
A wickeder boy never lived: nothing could be done with the reprobate.
4
The gods refused as fabulous are not held reprobate on that account.
5
That reprobate you were engaged to defied me and defended that woman.
Usage of perverse in English
1
Things are tough. Hazel Blears MP said sanctions led to 'perverse outcomes'.
2
In its typical, perverse way, the award went to Klaxons that year.
3
It also demonstrates, in a perverse way, real progress in racial equality.
4
As always with a target, it is likely to create perverse behaviour.
5
The Legislature was still stiff-necked and perverse in regard to the system.
6
They say that creates a perverse incentive to employ fewer qualifed workers.
7
People have a perverse desire to buy high, sell low, Fisher said.
8
Our perverse nod to the Mantle exhibited cruelty far beyond simple extinction.
9
I never saw so perverse and self-willed a child in my life.
10
All I know is that she was dealing with a perverse individual.
11
It sounded almost perverse to us until we received the formal notification.
12
It's that perverse optimism that Mark Ronson captures in Late Night Feelings.
13
This is, by the way, a perverse theory that Philip completely endorses.
14
Quite the opposite -she took a perverse enjoyment from that, too.
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Sometimes they are deliberately perverse, and obscure... But it was no good.
16
I love this. That's perverse, and such a person surely doesn't exist.
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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