Perverse in a sentence

At the Court of Appeal, Lorcan Staines SC, for Grozavu, submitted that the incorrect wording of the impediment charges against his client meant that the jury had returned a "perverse" verdict.

Bamidele also warned “against the perverse culture of stampeding the judiciary into partisan politics.

Danes was about 17 at the time of shooting, and DiCaprio already in his twenties.) But the film cannot be said to appeal to any but the most perverse and macro of prurient interests.

For a hefty price, there are loopholes to aid foreign travelers convicted of crimes there, which is how James is first introduced to a perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism.

Franz Rogowski stars as a polymorphously perverse filmmaker who, to the surprise of his artist husband (Ben Whishaw), starts a passionate affair with a female schoolteacher (Adèle Exarchopoulos).

It is perverse and un-American to applaud legislatures like ours in Florida that seek to pass laws suppressing rights and restricting popular power to challenge injustices.

Male partners who crown their significant other with the title often use it to excuse their perverse behaviors and habits, such as cheating, lying and even physical abuse.

Perverse as it may be, the revolution was and is still very adept at the use of nicknames and adjectives to discredit and ridicule any dissenting figurehead — a feat that’s easier to accomplish when you’ve effectively political satire.

Soon, they learn that they are being held hostage by Jigsaw and his perverse games.

The British tabloids are notoriously aggressive publications that perfected clickbait before the invention of the internet; their perverse insults and wild accusations could easily match the “mean girl” tweets of Former President Donald Trump.

The courts, in their wisdom, have veered into the realm of perverse decisions.

The IFS said failing to account for housing costs also leads to “perverse conclusions” when assessing the living standards of housing benefit claimants.

The motives of a person noting that the war in Ukraine has been treated very differently to the wars in Yemen and Ethiopia, or the devastation of Gaza, can only be perverse.

There is a certain perverse humour in finding a painting called “Beer Mile” depicting young men in basketball clothes guzzling cans in a parking lot in the esteemed halls of WAG-Qaumajuq.

There is a kind of perverse fatalism in this comment.

This is also, of course, the logic of capitalism at its most perverse, a way of jumbling Emerson’s directive to build our own worlds with society’s directive to build our own wealth.

To conclude, I would draw attention to how perverse it is that the entire political context surrounding the publication of Fascism Comes to America undermines its very thesis.

With these perverse incentive effects, it’s possible this plan could end up being much more costly than any of the estimates, perhaps north of a trillion dollars over a decade.

Adding an additional and extremely perverse dimension to what is already an unprecedented drug-death epidemic, Talamo shared that fake pills containing deadly amounts of fentanyl are increasingly prevalent today.

And then an epiphenomenon downstream of them is that Fox News can have an unviable business that is subsidized by this perverse monopoly effect.