Sentence examples for that would be perverse from inspiring English sources
"There is a real sense of confidence and belief at the moment that would be perverse not to celebrate.
It is possible to buy water in plastic bottles, but that would be perverse when there is so much good tasty stuff around for free.
A 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
As the evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould said, a fact can only mean something confirmed so thoroughly that "it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent".
Or, as Stephen Jay Gould (1981) put it in his inimitable style, "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent'".
As the late, great Stephen Jay Gould put it in his classic 1994 paper, "Evolution as Fact and Theory in Science," "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent".
In one strange letter of 1925, Maria writes to her: 'Aldous has just come into my bed & he smelt so strongly of you still that it made one giddy.' This would be perverse enough without the element of fantasy added by distance in time and space.
It would be perverse to say that having a child or a spouse die is not a big deal.
It would be perverse to suggest that the SNP's political ascendancy shows any signs of faltering.
It would be perverse to complain that a show about the hollowness of consumerism doesn't have a heart.
