How to Use perverted in a Sentence

perverted

adjective
  • He took a perverted pleasure in watching them suffer.
  • Having 18 year old girls grab your crotch is creepy and perverted.
    Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Two things should dissuade us from such a perverted reading of scripture.
    Jonathan L. Walton, Time, 22 June 2018
  • Just what the world needs — a perverted version of etiquette that spreads unpleasantness.
    Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • People often looked at Black women's beauty as perverted or dirty.
    Jihan Forbes, Allure, 21 Jan. 2022
  • What’s a worse sin/crime — declaring an obvious murder a suicide to protect a perverted crony?
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
  • One morning, a conversation about what to order for breakfast took a perverted twist.
    CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Any attempts to make their show more palatable and less online/perverted are (1) rude and (2) unwelcome.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • Nor is the spread the only form of perverted or deformed language in The Topeka School.
    Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • What if the victims were not real, but instead figments of a perverted imagination?
    Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But much to her dismay and disgust, Facebook restrictions weren't enough to stop one perverted hacker.
    Kayla Keegan, Redbook, 6 May 2015
  • Such acts only steel our resolve to defeat the terrorists and their perverted ideology.
    Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • Is Wonderland supposed to be a happy place for Alice that’s gotten perverted?
    Chris Kohler, WIRED, 26 July 2010
  • In Posobiec’s perverted presentation, children were eaten as well as raped.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Trans people have often been portrayed as exotic, perverted and monstrous, Simpson said.
    CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Otherwise, things can get dicey, spending all day filming bloodied bodies posed in perverted Biblical poses.
    William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Spufford has a sure grasp of the perverted politics and relentless grind of the wheels of capitalism, circa 1922.
    Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Mass murders in schools have been committed by shooters for whom an AR-15 is a tool of perverted emancipation.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • And like Warren Jeffs, who led a polygamous group in Arizona, his perverted lust for child brides would contribute to his downfall.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.
    Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 5 July 2024
  • The perverted globetrotting millionaire had paid the underage teen thousands of dollars.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The colorectal specialist in Turtle Bay has a benignly perverted air.
    Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • This creates a jarring effect as the significance of her busy endeavours is sublimated by the perverted impulse to judge her physical form.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This indicates a perverted incentive structure that disadvantages the less costly version of the product.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023

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