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Example sentences for: perverse
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The goal of a rent-regulation compromise should be to diminish unfairness and mitigate perverse side effects without giving a shock to the city's social system.
But sector investing also tends to reward a successful corporation's competitors for that corporation's success, and in that sense seems not merely counterintuitive but downright perverse.
At this juncture, Three Kings seems poised to turn into a relatively straightforward genre piece--a perverse "caper" movie with a touch of Gunga Din (1939).
Vaughan Williams's chilly symphony that developed out of his music for the “British hero” movie Scott of the Antarctic (1948) was actually entitled Sinfonia Antartica (1953), which seems rather perverse.
"Condemned to destroy the forest, because a cleared area provides at best only two years of crops, the 'settlers' are the first victims of a perverse policy that unfortunately hasn't changed one jot since the re-establishment of democracy," the editorial said.