Sentence examples for perverse interest from inspiring English sources

You dumped this woman for someone else and you think it's a good idea to let her knock you out and dig around in your maw with excavating tools?! My wife probably only shared the story with me because she's aware of my perverse interest in, well, perversity.

Rappers have a perverse interest in gangster society.

More to the point, though, is our perverse interest in knowing the day.

It may be that our interest in money is a form of pornographic pleasure with a perverse interest in the very rich, as James Atlas suggests.

And they both had an almost perverse interest in thumbing their noses at social mores — dating white women, driving fast cars.

Like so many things these days, the book is vulnerable to built-in obsolescence – particularly as I have a perverse interest in already-ghostly figures such as Cyril Fletcher and Ruth, Lady Fermoy (whose name, for some reason, always makes me titter).

As inferior suppliers of furs, the Iroquois had a perverse common interest with the French, an inferior source of manufactured goods.

That system is a perverse, special interest policy inimical to the education and thus the life chances of children.

There was nothing perverse about his interest in Eastern philosophy.

This orgy may be a last, perverse flareup of interest in something that will soon be no more.

She rages against her mother and sisters, denounces old friends, and takes perverse, schadenfreude-like interest in the woes of others — including the victims of Hurricane Katrina.