Sentence examples for perverse trait from inspiring English sources

I inherited this perverse trait from him.

During the trial, the court heard from a woman to whom Madsen had confessed that he was "a psychopath, but a loving one", a judgment backed up by a forensic psychiatric report that described Madsen as a "perverse polymorph" with "psychopathic traits".

But just when the window opened for some self-righteous, socialist, Chomskian ejaculation about sport being a distraction for the masses and a perverse way to glorify the worst traits of humankind, all Pickering said was:  "I'm really having trouble with this one.

Adam Kotsko, an academic at Shimer College in Chicago and an expert in the perverse appeal of less agreeable human character traits, has bravely attempted to work out why we're so obsessed with such characters who should, as the definition of creepiness goes, "cause an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease".

How perverse.

The pattern is perverse.

Very perverse.

Consider the perverse incentives.

It's perverse.

It's almost perverse.

That would be perverse.