How to Use perverted in a Sentence

perverted

adjective

• He took a perverted pleasure in watching them suffer.
• Nor is the spread the only form of perverted or deformed language in The Topeka School.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Having 18 year old girls grab your crotch is creepy and perverted.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
• In the most perverted scene in the entire three-hour film, she — an adult woman! — straight up drinks a full glass of milk like some kind of freak … or some kind of person who role-plays as a cat.
  — Vulture, 18 Apr. 2022
• Two things should dissuade us from such a perverted reading of scripture.
  — Jonathan L. Walton, Time, 22 June 2018
• The tension is further spiked by the return of Gallo’s Sammy, who tempts her with drugs and lays bare his perverted designs on her young daughter.
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2022
• Any attempts to make their show more palatable and less online/perverted are (1) rude and (2) unwelcome.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• Just what the world needs — a perverted version of etiquette that spreads unpleasantness.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• To draw on the history of violence against black men just for being black, and to compare it to Bill’s perverted behavior, is vicious.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• Terror, Billy’s perverted dog in the comics, will also be coming out of retirement, if only for one big episode.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• But much to her dismay and disgust, Facebook restrictions weren't enough to stop one perverted hacker.
  — Kayla Keegan, Redbook, 6 May 2015
• This perverted idea of paradise worms its way in to each person’s psyche as this space soon becomes claustrophobic.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• To preserve this perverted state of affairs, a gap between what is said and what is felt must be actively cultivated.
  — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• One morning, a conversation about what to order for breakfast took a perverted twist.
  — CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• Of course, there is no chance of totally shutting down those who would do harm to others — especially on the high-profile stage that sports provides — in pursuit of their perverted goals.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
• People often looked at Black women's beauty as perverted or dirty.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 21 Jan. 2022
• His real education began at 20, when Tiberius summoned him to his island getaway on Capri and, like some kinky Yoda, schooled the young Gaius in the arts of power and perverted pleasures.
  — Jason Horowitz, Town & Country, 22 Mar. 2021
• What if the victims were not real, but instead figments of a perverted imagination?
  — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 31 Jan. 2018
• Is Wonderland supposed to be a happy place for Alice that’s gotten perverted?
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 26 July 2010
• Such acts only steel our resolve to defeat the terrorists and their perverted ideology.
  — Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
• Trans people have often been portrayed as exotic, perverted and monstrous, Simpson said.
  — CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Therein lies part of the attraction: moving through that jumble — with all of its perverted poetics of grep and vi and git and apache and .ini — and doing so with a fingers-floating-across-the-keyboard balletic grace, is exhilarating.
  — Craig Mod, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
• The colorectal specialist in Turtle Bay has a benignly perverted air.
  — Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
• For the last year, the president pit short-term economic interests and a perverted idea of personal liberty against public health imperatives.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• Activists who would tear down the freedoms and institutions that make our country great — and capable of becoming greater — by empowering the central government at their expense, all in the name of a perverted view of equity and justice.
  — Charles Hilu, National Review, 9 Sep. 2021
• The perverted globetrotting millionaire had paid the underage teen thousands of dollars.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2021
• Manson had been vaguely associated with the California counterculture, though the cult leader twisted those ideas to fit his own perverted ends.
  — Alejandro De La Garza, Time, 26 July 2019
• The first two follow women negotiating motherhood and an affair, respectively; the latter centers on what is essentially a perverted stay-at-home dad.
  — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• Many of us, perhaps sheepishly, or simply selfishly, quite like the perverted freedoms enabled by a sophisticated division of labor.
  — Harrison Stetler, The New York Review of Books, 21 Jan. 2020
• Prosecutors referred to Sandoval as a perverted stalker and murderer.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017

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