Perverted

Examples

• Jarndyce and Jarndyce has warped him out of himself and perverted me in his eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The trust is not checked, but it is perverted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They-all's a desecrating us, right here on this here perverted island. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I was much disconcerted, but I reflected that if the main point were gained, it mattered little how strangely he perverted everything leading to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr Rokesmith, it is to me you owe this perverted account of what passed between us that night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Nor was there anything perverted about it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Such grace as was visible in it, made it the uglier, showing how warped and perverted all things good by nature were become. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• British independence, rather perverted? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Thus the lessons of my life have been perverted! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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