perversive

[per-vur-siv]

adjective

1. tending to pervert.

perversive

/ pəˈvɜːsɪv /

adjective

1. perverting or tending to pervert

Other Word Forms

• nonperversive adjective
• unperversive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of perversive¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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That quickly morphed into a narrative that black people are violent and killing themselves during the Civil Rights movement and now a perversive gawking of Chicago’s continued gun violence.

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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.

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So too the separation of the "useful arts" from the "fine arts" is unjust to art and perversive of right appreciation.

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

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