perversive

Definition of perversivenext

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Adjective
  • The case also ties to an earlier incident on March 24, when police say Alexander approached a woman under the pretense of asking for directions while engaging in indecent behavior.
    Sergio Candido, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In May 2014, Caballero was convicted of a second-degree felony involving indecent contact with an 8-year-old female and was incarcerated, according to the Texas Public Sex Offender website.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Kilitch Healthcare had serious quality lapses, in which the facility was filthy, employees were barefoot on the manufacturing floor and the company fraudulently passed products that failed sterility tests.
    C. Michael White, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The movie doesn’t make this plot very clear, and is more concerned with the texture of this filthy world.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This material included thousands of pornographic deepfakes that Kamnik had generated using AI tools.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Police are investigating reports that Lake Zurich High School students used artificial intelligence to generate pornographic images of classmates, district officials said.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Shout out to the gross floating snot visual, too.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The sci-fi epic is expected to gross $26 million by Sunday, falling only 18%.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The word was considered so vulgar that it was left out of early dictionaries and was rarely printed, though Adams says people were certainly using it.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • One day, Dahlstrom made a vulgar joke in a lunchroom referencing oral sex and pubic hair, according to the employee.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This Valentine’s Day, why not treat yourself to a perfume that beckons lustful strangers in a way not seen since Monica Bellucci at that Sicilian piazza in Malèna.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The two admit to having always loved each other (that's not a spoiler; the book is nearly 200 years old) and begin a steamy, lustful affair.
    Amanda Luberto, AZCentral.com, 11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The couple is back together in Arkansas after Joseph was released from custody on a $600,000 bond in Florida where he is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Duggar was initially charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Evans has prior convictions for statutory rape and lewd acts with a minor.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Trump also publicly threatened a lawsuit after denying involvement in creating the lewd drawing when interviewed by the story’s reporters.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
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“Perversive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perversive. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.

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