Sample Sentences for
perverse
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    And since everyone at school already had a perverted image of me after Justin's little number, I was the perfect choice, wasn't I?  (source)
    perverted = unpleasantly abnormal (deviation from what is considered reasonable, proper, or good)
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    Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.  (source)
    perverted = a deviation from what is reasonable, proper, or good
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    Still there was something perverse in his searching. Like exhausting the least likely places first when looking for something lost.  (source)
    perverse = a deviation from what is considered reasonable or good
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    In a perverse kind of way, he conceded that it didn't feel half bad.†  (source)
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    I wish I'd known America before it got perverted.†  (source)
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    What perversity caused the book to open at my Wanna's favorite passage?†  (source)
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    For a moment I was perversely glad I was hidden from myself.†  (source)
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    But caution can deteriorate into obstinacy, perverseness, or disingenuity.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    She remembered that in all his perversities he had never spoken against affection.†  (source)
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    Then would the noble or right honourable Barnacle perceive, sir, from this little document, which he thought might carry conviction even to the perversest mind (Derisive laughter and cheering from the Barnacle fry), that within the short compass of the last financial half-year, this much-maligned Department (Cheers) had written and received fifteen thousand letters (Loud cheers), had written twenty-four thousand minutes (Louder cheers), and thirty-two thousand five hundred and seventeen memoranda (Vehement cheering).†  (source)
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    For some perverse reason, we children hated those marigolds.†  (source)
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    Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual.†  (source)
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    This girl had always been the favourite of her father, but through a strange perversity, her mother could not endure her, and after the death of M. Moritz, treated her very ill.†  (source)
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