How to Use perverse in a Sentence

perverse

adjective

• Is this some kind of perverse joke?
• His friends all enjoy his perverse sense of humor.
• She has a perverse fascination with death.
• He seems to take perverse pleasure in making things as difficult as possible.
• At one time, this would have seemed like a perverse joke.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2020
• But the series doesn’t treat death with the perverse glee of a cheesy ’90s hit — at least not yet.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• And isn’t that part of the perverse pleasure of watching?
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• Court records also show that over time, the demands in the hoax calls grew more perverse.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2022
• The spread of democracy in the 1990s across the region has had a perverse effect.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• In a perverse way, the rise in numbers is just what the Roman lab is looking for.
  — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2020
• The distraught mind has used the body as a perverse canvas, and the book serves as an extension of the artist’s flesh.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
• This is a perverse idea, and a non-starter in the Legislature.
  — Liz Krueger, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
• In a perverse and terrible way, Vladimir Putin has done the world a great service.
  — William Falk, The Week, 6 Mar. 2022
• Some of them are doing it out of a perverse desire to make a difference in the world.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
• The story of the Murdaughs, King says, may be even more perverse than the fictional Prince of Tides.
  — Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2022
• In the Realm of the Senses has long been considered one of the most perverse and erotic films to have ever slinked across the screen.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2022
• The result is a perverse set of incentives for founders.
  — Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2020
• That might seem a bit perverse, given all that’s on offer.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• Once a recall makes the ballot, the rules are even more perverse and less democratic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Month after month we were shown a grim X-ray of the perverse inequities that had been eating away at the city’s body politic for decades.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2021
• This is a perverse, painful way to deal with such a critical issue.
  — Apratim Gautam, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
• Getting rid of that set of perverse incentives would be a good idea.
  — Ivan Oransky, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
• But maybe Augustine’s purpose is to cheer us up in a perverse way.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2020
• In a perverse sense, this chaotic history has turned out to be something of a boon.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 July 2018
• Even perverse decisions will not take you too far from the main plotline.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• She’s been raised with a perverse set of assumptions about the roles of men and women and the necessity to hide abuse for the good of the order.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2020
• There was a perverse pleasure in eschewing the thing that everybody’s there for: the kills.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 2 July 2019
• In a perverse way, May December is a tribute to the alchemy of screen acting.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
• In a dispiriting twist, the person who suffers most from the perverse ecology of online celebrity is Zoé.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
• Music has often been described as a dirty business, and this is because so many perverse actors see openings to exploit the pure drive and passion of artists and listeners.
  — Charlie Kaplan, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024