pervert
verb (used with object)
to affect with perversion.
perverts
Example Sentences
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What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
“It inverts, or you might say perverts, the assumptions at the very foundation of the justification for the free market,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
“If terrorism and violence in the name of dissent cannot be condoned, neither can violence that is officially sanctioned. Such action perverts the legal system that alone assures the survival of our traditions,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
Offering such glints of transcendence at the edge of an ugly killing, Melchor creates a narrative that not only decries an atrocity but embodies the beauty and vitality it perverts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2020
It perverts the forces which tend to secure to individuals all that they produce.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark
