Example Sentences

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It is our misfortune to live in an age that has perverted the concept of shame.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2014

Some fear Castro's popular appeal among the hungry peasantry of their own nations; and if Castro has perverted the cause of social reform, they are still on the side of reform.

From Time Magazine Archive

She has long suffered the invective of traditionalists who feel she has perverted the tony magazine started by Harold Ross in 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kris Kringle inveighs against the commercialism which has perverted Christmas.

From Time Magazine Archive

By means of unworthy sophisms, your friend Fra Girard has perverted your one-time sense of right and wrong!

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne