perversive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perversive
Adjective
  • Former Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent image of a child.
    Ali Rampling, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Morris’ attorneys had requested the preliminary hearing after the former North Texas pastor was indicted by a grand jury in March on five felony charges of lewd or indecent acts to a child, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The period recreation of ’30s Algiers is shot though with elegance, and there is a fetishistic attention to the beauty of faces, places and things.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Or find a less filthy campmate.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Away from a filthy Superdome and Convention Center where they had been holed up for days.
    Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Being the mother of seven was useful, however, when the court debated in January whether there were workable alternatives to age verification requirements for pornographic websites.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As of state legislation passed in 2024, creating or distributing non-consensual pornographic deepfakes is a misdemeanor offense in Indiana.
    Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the most worrisome harbingers of future affordability is that Florida added more than 700,000 units with gross rents higher than $1,200 monthly between 2012 and 2022.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But that figure set a franchise record — highest-ever premiere gross — and given the tendency of the films kickstarted by 2013's The Conjuring to endure in theaters long after their opens, Last Rites is sure to keep adding to its coffers.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The book is filled with vulgar pictures, with many faces blacked out, and messages both handwritten and typed from well-wishers for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The biopic is the vulgar but necessary tribute inherently populist cinema pays to more traditional, higher-brow art.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the years, the notoriously ribald Stern has interviewed hundreds of actors, comedians, music artists, athletes, politicians and more on his show.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Much of the dialogue is hilariously ribald, especially in a locker room scene in which the two nude men share a tender familial embrace after comparing penises.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
Adjective
  • Many of them uncharitable and nasty, some of them vulgar and unprintable.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • Early in his career, he was known for generating headlines—some of them unprintable—and a temper that could have started fights in an empty room.
    Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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“Perversive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perversive. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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