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View synonyms for perversive

perversive

[ per-vur-siv ]

adjective

  1. tending to pervert.


perversive

/ pəˈvɜːsɪv /

adjective

  1. perverting or tending to pervert
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • nonper·versive adjective
  • unper·versive adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of perversive1

1685–95; < Latin pervers ( us ) perverse + -ive
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Example Sentences

Decades later, the combination of dietary issues and disordered eating patterns is still a perversive challenge for many of us.

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That quickly morphed into a narrative that black people are violent and killing themselves during the Civil Rights movement and now a perversive gawking of Chicago’s continued gun violence.

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The signal for the opening of such a perversive campaign was the passing of that iniquitous law to which was given the name of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

So too the separation of the "useful arts" from the "fine arts" is unjust to art and perversive of right appreciation.

But against any perversive doctrine we must in all honesty take a firm stand.

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