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perversive

American  
[per-vur-siv] / pərˈvɜr sɪv /

adjective

  1. tending to pervert.


perversive British  
/ pəˈvɜːsɪv /

adjective

  1. perverting or tending to pervert

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of perversive

1685–95; < Latin pervers ( us ) perverse + -ive

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Decades later, the combination of dietary issues and disordered eating patterns is still a perversive challenge for many of us.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2023

But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service.

From Time Magazine Archive

How well those Pharaohs, Men�s, and Cheops knew man as the most perversive, destructive and evil of animals!

From The Companions of Jehu by Dumas père, Alexandre

The signal for the opening of such a perversive campaign was the passing of that iniquitous law to which was given the name of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

But against any perversive doctrine we must in all honesty take a firm stand.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

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