Sentence examples for perverse from from inspiring English sources

This time, however, she got the nod from two of the judges, which seemed mildly perverse – from this seat in the faraway press box, anyway.

Prince wore jeans, leg warmers, a vest, a blouse and a raincoat – not quite the Imp of the Perverse from his Dirty Mind tour of 1981, when he decked himself out in black high-heeled boots, leggings and women's underwear.

From the start, Pistorius's account is a perverse deviation from the overwhelming pattern of evidence that has been long established in such crimes, which is that the reasons lie in the nature of the relationship, specifically in the hostile attitudes of the killer to the killed.

So far, the region has benefited from the twin windfalls of low labour costs—a perverse gain from communist mismanagement and fast economic integration with the rich half of the continent.

I inherited this perverse trait from him.

The perverse lesson from all of this for the consumer?

"I got a perverse enjoyment from it," he says.

That inequality is a perverse holdover from the Jim Crow era.

They seem to get a perverse thrill from mortifying you.

Perhaps we are intended to view this as perverse logic from a somewhat disturbed individual.

"I still don't eat them, but I get this perverse pleasure from buying them.