Example sentences for: perversely

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

  • The Times lead editorial says the decision "perversely deprived" students and their families of an effective legal remedy.

  • You can imagine the fun Rauschenberg must have had finding random detritus on the streets, dragging it up to the loft, and then figuring out the most perversely elegant ways to put it together.

  • Perversely, it wasn't until this crude sanitization that Austen's popularity really took off.

  • "Will strafing Iraqi military installations one more time make the Middle East a safer place--or will it only serve to perpetuate Saddam's malign influence by perversely giving him added kudos with his long-suffering people?"

  • More perversely, we also expect social equality--nobody is better than anyone else, we all play by the same rules--when the characteristic of previous human society has been the instinctive ranking by status.


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