Example sentences for: perversely

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

  • There's something perversely reassuring about a great beauty who had it all--and still ended up a drug-addled wretch manipulated by a Machiavellian butler (Richard Chamberlain).

  • At the end, following these ranks of erotic, dangerous, comic, elegant, or perversely masculine female footgear, comes the "Sneaker Chic" section.

  • I'd like to volunteer that these books have drawn some perversely unsatisfying combination reviews, most notably in the Sept. 6 New York Times , which devoted the weight of 30 column inches (by my pica rule) to admiring Celebration, U.S.A. , except for one paragraph spent denouncing The Celebration Chronicles on the astonishing grounds that Mr. Ross is a single man in an apartment without a mortgage or children, and thus had no "real stake" equipping him to comment.

  • "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?"

  • But everybody was 6 feet tall and slim, very young and very beautiful, and paraded with the same pleasing, well disposed manner and well paced gait through the perversely austere production.


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