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Every once in a great while we get evidence of some perverse matter.

But she would not be perverse in a matter like this.

Why in the name of everything perverse would he want to do that?

It does seem perverse of the Times to want to out him, though.

Sometimes I think they just do it to be perverse.

They were perhaps a third of the way up when by some perverse chance, she looked down.

But oil has a perverse effect on politics and economic development.

There is something perverse about reading the business news these days.

And yet, perverse as it is, the system makes economic sense.

That, though, is a perverse way of looking at things.

But there may also be a third reason, one that is in some ways perverse.

Seven times he came back - perhaps some kind of perverse record in itself.

A perverse side of your nature allowed you to fall in love with the country and people.

It says nothing about perverse use to keep the vote down.

Far from perverse, this is how the law was designed to work.

Now, in some perverse way, it made him stand his ground.

None of the public's perverse interest in the case seemed to have been lost.

This may not be such a bad thing since it was kind of a perverse situation to begin with.

Or perhaps a perverse desire to be where the action is.

In either case, the results are nearly always perverse and disappointing.

Yes, that might appeal to his sense of the perverse.

For some perverse reason she had wanted him to be annoyed.

In a perverse sense, he was the oldest living human.

"The Natural" is a perverse movie because half of it knows better.

There were days when such a notion would have seemed perverse.