Sentence examples for that is perverse from inspiring English sources
"This shows a side of the British government that is perverse – it is cruel and unusual punishment".
According to HRW, those caught in legal limbo are being thwarted by labyrinthine bureaucracy that is perverse at best and fiercely discriminatory at worst.
His self-criticism has a too-smooth edge; it is as though he has considered all possible criticisms he might face and taken them on himself, and there is an egotistical undertone to this that is perverse.
He added: "[Osborne] is cutting taxes at the top and then he says …: 'I'm going to hit people at the bottom.'" Balls claimed the chancellor was "in a deep hole" and said: "I'm not going to dig our way to unfairness and economic failure, that is perverse".
After all, if the players attached higher value to the social good (for their 2-person society of thieves) than to their individual welfare, they could then do better individually too; game-theoretic 'rationality', it is objected, yields behavior that is perverse even from the individually optimizing point of view.
"Because we're not doing anything that's perverse.
The love is pure; it's the fantasy that's perverse.
Europeans, who still believe that Valentine's Day is for lovers, think that this is perverse.
They said that was perverse.
And that was perverse pop counterintuition at its best — just as strong and potentially world-beating as what might be its opposite, the functional, party-hard surfaces of Swedish House Mafia's techno.
