perversive
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonperversive adjective
- unperversive adjective
Etymology
Origin of perversive
Example Sentences
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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
This perversive philosophy once launched needed only a leader to present it in a concrete and popular form.
From Project Gutenberg
So too the separation of the "useful arts" from the "fine arts" is unjust to art and perversive of right appreciation.
From Project Gutenberg
But against any perversive doctrine we must in all honesty take a firm stand.
From Project Gutenberg
How well those Pharaohs, Men�s, and Cheops knew man as the most perversive, destructive and evil of animals!
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