Example sentences for: perverse

How can you use “perverse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.


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