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The perversity of government stakes in private companies is made even clearer by other Washington antics.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025 -
Actions matter, not words that, in their perversity, made matters worse.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Last but not least is a 12-week-old dog named Sunny, who has truly leaned into the naughtiness of being a puppy.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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Spaces that seem most interested in the permissiveness of perversion.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
25 June 2025
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Jew haters have long alleged the wickedness of Israel and its ties with powerful elites across the world.—
Michael S. Roth,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
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Speaking after him, another pastor compared Austin to Nineveh, a city associated with wickedness in the Old Testament.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Back then, many conservatives treated the Epstein files as a skeleton key promising cataclysmic revelations about elite depravity and corruption.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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We are used to it, even as new levels of depravity are uncovered on a weekly basis.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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While some recent sales have been sluggish — Susan Gutfreund’s 12,000-square-foot duplex listed for $120 million in 2016 and finally sold for $53 million three years later, that seems more a symptom of delusional pricing than undesirability.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
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Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2022
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“Kinkiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinkiness. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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