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 • 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
This perversive philosophy once launched needed only a leader to present it in a concrete and popular form.
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
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
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