Example sentences for: perverse

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

  • "Portnoy's complaint" is defined on the first page of the novel of that name as "A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature."

  • ) As if the reader can't see right away that Joseph has an appetite as perverse as Ruth's (because Joseph himself doesn't see it right away), Joseph the narrator laboriously mulls over the lessons he is learning about her and about himself.

  • With perverse anti-insight, Hoffman has updated the play to a sunny, atmospherically untroubled Tuscany in the 19 th century and has filled his frames with scampering street urchins and matrons kneading dough.

  • Cornell's art consists of useless found objects that, when arranged in boxes and placed behind glass, seem like answers to forgotten riddles set long ago by brilliant and perverse princesses.

  • The episode itself sounds iffy--Fish launches a wrongful-termination suit on behalf of a major client who's been fired for claiming to have seen a unicorn--but there's a kind of perverse thrill in seeing what abject humiliation will befall the show's emaciated heroine each week.


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