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perverse
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Simple sentences
Don't be so perverse!
Tom is perverse.
I just bet you were thinking something perverse just now.
Movie subtitles
Aye, Judy's a strange lass- moody and perverse and unpredictable.
An arsonist is a person that sets buildings on fire for profit or perverse excitement.
They were perverse and crooked and rebellious against God.
Your callousness is perverse.
Perverse barbarism.
And I know that in this country, we have a perverse habit of forgetting.
My mother got married so, married to a perverse man. who, eager for my treasures, gave me to his foreman. that new how to use a knife very well, to kill me.
How could you say such a perverse thing. when you felt on your own flesh how is to keep a word?
No one can be such a perverse idiot as to assault a customs official.
He implored me to soil his letter in a way that I dare not say, to punish him, as it truly deserves, to ride it and ride it, and give it a lash perverse!
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, so thou wilt woo.
You attribute her perverse thoughts.
You perverse British, how you love your exercise.
You are far too unbalanced for a task that is perverse enough as it is.
Very perverse.
There's something rather perverse about all this.
Not with perverse and dishonorable passion, but with deep, honest love, you could even say, conjugal love.
If you think me so perverse, why don't you try hating old King Louis of France?
THE STRANGE AND PERVERSE DISINCLINATION TO BELIEVE IN A M IRACLE, THE KIND OF M IRACLE TO COME FROM THE M IND OF A LITTLE BOY.
It's almost perverse.
One member of that jury was being deliberately perverse.
Do you still meet the perverse, bearded man?
Some kind of perverse need to cause attention.
Her perverse majesty is here.
As you may have noticed I'm a total lunatic, terribly perverse in spite of my noble origins.
Maybe I'm a bit perverse, but I've a weakness for American canned beans.
A deceitful, perverse woman.
Or maybe you're crazy and perverse enough to laugh of all of us.
You're polymorphously perverse.
It seemed perverse to assume that, because the whale was intelligent, it would also have our ugliest emotion: Vengeance.
I saw right away that this was someone perverse, with a distorted perception.
News and current affairs
Perverse subsidies must be removed and recent new ones favoring products such as bio-fuels reconsidered.
The aggressive foreign policy pursued by Wilhelmine Germany, the perverse suffering inflicted on Russia by Lenin and Stalin, the terrors of Mao, the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco, and the monstrous Nazi regime all occurred during this transition.
Insurers must also be attentive to a wide array of possible moral hazards - perverse incentives to risky behavior - and to problems of selection bias in attracting clients.
The IMF has been criticized for burdening borrowers with unnecessary and sometimes perverse lending conditions, but its highly qualified staff has not been shy in blowing the whistle when it perceived domestic vulnerabilities in other countries.
But the interlinking of consulting and auditing practices puts other perverse incentives in place: an incentive to please the clients, who dislike unfavorable reports.
The question for regulators is whether, in responding to the financial crisis, they have created perverse incentives that are working against a recovery in long-term private-sector investment.
This created a perverse incentive for commercial banks to buy the weaker governments' debt in order to earn what eventually became just a few basis points, as interest-rate differentials converged to practically zero.
From the point of view of China's Communist rulers, this seems perverse.
Perverse incentives fueled excessive risk-taking, and banks that are near collapse but are too big to fail will engage in even more of it.
The first type aims at an institutional reordering, so that inefficiencies and perverse incentives are removed, and the economy functions more smoothly and efficiently.
Incentives for brokers and credit rating agencies have been even more perverse.
A bill proposed by former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur seeks to eliminate perverse incentives by barring corporate officers from exercising their stock options until they leave the company.
Banning certain opinions, no matter how perverse, has the effect of elevating their proponents into dissidents.
Today's unemployment, after all, is structural, rather than the result of perverse incentives.
But the absence of credible carbon price signals, along with the perverse incentives created by fossil-fuel subsidies, continues to hold back the investments and technologies needed to drive a low-carbon transition.
What perverse reason could Abe have for pursuing such an outcome?
And that is where Abe's behavior becomes truly perverse.
It is a compelling narrative, one with which we can readily explain how politics so often generates perverse outcomes.
From the outside looking in it seems almost perverse that Irish voters might reject the Lisbon Treaty.
Recent events in Venezuela imply as many perils and unforeseen, perverse consequences as in Ukraine, and the international community, as well as most Latin American democracies, should be paying much more attention.
By rewarding executives for risky behavior, and by insulating them from some of the adverse consequences of that behavior, pay arrangements for financial-sector bosses produced perverse incentives, encouraging them to gamble.