Sentence examples for seemed perverse from inspiring English sources

"seemed perverse" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe someone or an action that appears to be deliberately contrary and unreasonable. For example: In spite of the team's unanimous agreement, the manager's decision to go against their opinion seemed perverse.

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Since Sri Lanka has a system of proportional representation, this seemed perverse.

At first, it seemed perverse to turn vivid human characters into dolls.

On its face the program order might have seemed perverse: two symphonies followed by an overture.

The idea of trying to turn India into the US suddenly seemed perverse.

There is often a sexual charge to Dehmel's poetry, which must have seemed perverse at the time.

If it seemed perverse that none of the potential No 6s was actually batting at six, it was of no import.

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That may seem perverse.

That seems perverse.

It seems perverse, then, to exclude individuals.

Statistically and aesthetically that dissonance seems perverse.

Such a narrow focus seems perverse.

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