How To Use Perverse In A Sentence

I have what I call perverse desire, which I think is key to being an artist of any kind. FEATURED POET: REBECCA LOUDON
In a perverse way it might be quite fun. Times, Sunday Times
The way targets are being implemented is also having perverse effects. Times, Sunday Times
The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment.
There is a curious and perverse incentive in the very concept of a lifetime allowance. Times, Sunday Times

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but since the "literature" of the hack is so perverse and disturbing in its "message," the term clownish is too light and good natured to be appropriate. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Hitchcock also a perverse thrill out of taking audiences on a voyeuristic roller - coaster ride.
I was fingering my car keys, wondering if my perverse appetite would last all the way to Tesco's and back, when I had a sudden brainwave.
One problem is that the calculation gives perverse results when companies have destroyed shareholder value. Times, Sunday Times
Taxi drivers as therapists may seem perverse, but more and more of us seem to be pouring our hearts out in the back of cabs.
The case was so surrealistic that the novelist Francisco Goldman decided to abandon the magic of fiction and tell this "baroque story of perhaps perverse human passions" in journalistic form in The Art of Political Murder. John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism
The station is somewhat different from reality, and - perversely - passengers leave the low-level station via a downward staircase.
Shaw – being the maverick painter in the pack, and a popular favourite – will surely win the big prize, though, with his views of nowhere places, meticulously and perversely rendered in the unwieldy and super low-tech medium of model aeroplane kit makers' Humbrol enamels. This week's new exhibitions
Doubtful it may be, whether it should be called dimness of understanding, or rather perverse ingenuity, that men reason thus, when the facts are: So general is the disposition to abuse power, that wherever it is accumulated, it will surely be abused; accordingly it must be distributed as equally as possible. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
All told, this was a lachrymose week, though perversely if the greatest music provokes a lump in your throat you know it's all going swimmingly. Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
These results are not as perverse as they seem. Times, Sunday Times
If noodling is legal in only seven states, the reason has less to do with the environment than with ethics -- and ethics of a perversely genteel sort. In the Monster's Maw
The rudeness of its personnel is legendary, yet it seems perversely proud to be the Fawlty Towers of English cricket, where everything would be fine if it wasn't for the deuced public wanting to watch cricket there.
The word perverse doesn’t begin to do the event justice. HOW EVIL WORKS
What on the face of it seemed a perverse limitation had its own logic, faulty though it proved to be. VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
The couple laugh with a kind of perverse delight. Times, Sunday Times
The truth is, that our friend had been reading among the essays of a contemporary, who has perversely been confounded with him, a paper in which Edax (or the Great Eater) humorously complaineth of an inordinate appetite; and it struck him that a better paper -- of deeper interest, and wider usefulness -- might be made out of the imagined experiences of a The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
Such perverse behaviour prompted calls for the group to be awarded the title of ‘the most charmless in rock’, so it's with a heavy heart that I trudge along London's Caledonian Road to meet them.
Increasing the supply of new nurses may turn out to be perversely ineffective if overall numbers grow and nurses perform even more non-nursing tasks.
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
Impossible to describe without using the word lurid, Leave Her to Heaven features more perverse activity than any number of more celebrated cult faves-including Nicholas Ray's infamous Joan Crawford western New York Press
His description of the origins of the Vietnamese Communist party, for example, is wrong in almost every particular; his warm admiration for John Paul Vann, the mythomaniac American counter-insurgency officer whose career was detailed in Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer-prize winning Bright and Shining Lie (1988), is particularly perverse. The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone
But having viewed several of these spectacles herself, she could not deny that they were perversely arousing. COLDHEART CANYON
Amid the many trials of their maiden adulthood, she avers, they feel perversely compelled to refute the proper sovereignty of boomer parents in their lives.
I. i.10 (396,5) Fair is foul, and foul is fair] I believe the meaning is, that _to us_, perverse and malignant as we are, _fair is foul, and foul is fair_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
But there still clung to her what I fear we must call a perverseness of obstinacy, a desire to maintain the resolution she had made -- a wish that she might be allowed to undergo the punishment she had deserved. Can You Forgive Her?
Verily, nothing can be done for the sake of evil even by the wicked themselves; for, as we abundantly proved, they seek good, but are drawn out of the way by perverse error; far less can this order which sets out from the supreme centre of good turn aside anywhither from the way in which it began. Consolation of Philosophy
The public was fickle, sometimes positively perverse, deciding to deify an unknown against all expectation. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; untilperhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lidslittle Pearl awoke! VI. Pearl
In March 2004 I was still dazed from the twin shocks of the 11th September 2001 attack and the perverse A Conversation with Chris Cleave about Little Bee
A case was formerly published by Tardieu, in which servant-maids in conjunction with their lovers carried out with the children under their care all sorts of perverse acts: cunnilinctus, masturbation, the introduction of various objects into the vagina and the anus. The Sexual Life of the Child
Constant interference has resulted in the perverse outcome of a glut of flats and a shortage of family homes with gardens. The Sun
These new rules should be structured in a way that removes perverse incentives to lower standards.
The study suggests that, perversely, implementing guidelines may lead to higher overall direct costs per patient.
This kind of reasoning is deeply perverse.
There is a curious, arguably perverse, symbiosis in football between physical prowess and serious injury which remains unexamined.
Cruelty "perversely" gives sympathy to the terrorists, Mora said, adding that it lessened the contrast between the United States and its enemies. Mndaily.com - all articles
In a perverse sort of way it actually gives you a bit of confidence that you are on to something. Times, Sunday Times
The waves went high as some cVillain knitters gave quite literate descriptions of methods and used words most often filtered and censored by otherwise hyper sensitive little interknit filters designed to moderate the durrty feelthy perverse words that may blind poor ignorant and unsuspecting interknitting surfers. Charlottesville Blogs
Very loose monetary policy has had perverse distributional effects. Times, Sunday Times
It might seem perverse to see two housebuilders on the list. Times, Sunday Times
If you also felt your father didn't love you, it might have instilled in you a perverse need for men to prove their love. Times, Sunday Times
His flowing black cape, which appeared to have a perverse relationship with his arms, obscured his clothing, save for his ruffled shirt and his hushpuppy loafers. An East Wind Coming
In this strategy I am thankfully aided by Floyd, who is doubtless the most perverse sexual deviant ever to reside in our fair city of Wellington.
This generation of unregenerated vipers was still perverse, stiff-necked, and hardened in their iniquity. Barchester Towers
Faced with such apparently perverse ways of thinking it is easy to conclude that they can not possibly reason as we reason.
Perversely, the existing system has begun to attract support, from three sources.
So his decision to show the way last night smacked of a perverse desire to prove something to himself and the world.
But abandoning patients seems a perverse way of improving safety. The Sun
The pleasure is perverse: the thrill of an incessantly thwarted chase. Times, Sunday Times
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Even for an administration that takes perverse pride in sneering at the term "conservation," this latest news is a shocker: President Bush's 2007 budget includes an order to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to sell off as much as 800,000 acres of national lands to generate money for public schools. For Sale: Your Hunting Heritage
In the logic of the play, Iona is cast as a politically dangerous figure because of her perverse erotic engagements, although Shelley wisely never particularizes the full range of Iona's so-called perversity; and the ultimate crime that all of Iona's transgressions metaphorizeSwellfoot's "castration" is punished even before it is committed, since Swellfoot calls for the beheading of the Queen before she confronts him directly with her own demands for political power. Shelley
Often she is downright perverse. Times, Sunday Times
Perversely, many chapters deal in detail with individual people who can only be described as extraordinary.
What on the face of it seemed a perverse limitation had its own logic, faulty though it proved to be. VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
B.D. further said that homosexuals in sports “should be subject to permanent disinjunction,” but doubted that his own team “pavilioned such perverse seed-spillers.” Foul Lines
So the ungauged reservoir turns out to be an inclosed basin, but Dorothea was prevented by her social lot, and perverse goodness, and puritanical The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
And just because you find certain sex acts perverse is not a reason to deny equality before the law to same-sex couples. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
That is the question being asked at this most prestigious of festivals, after a long series of productions of operas by the town's most famous son that at best must be counted perverse and at worst dottily destructive.
Smith's fearsomely focused narratives and majestically brutal accompaniment are alternately highlighted or hamstrung by perverse and frustrating production decisions.
Attempts have been made to subordinate sympathy to self-love, but they appear to me perverse.
But abandoning patients seems a perverse way of improving safety. The Sun
Some perverse flirtation as a new hobby for when he comes home from work. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
All these perverse incentives drive the price up. The Sun
‘There is a perverse sense of release once you get caught because you have been living a lie,’ he said.
By this perverseness of integrity he was driven out a commoner of nature, excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity, and reduced to pick up a livelihood uncertain and fortuitous; but it must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect, to mean arts and dishonourable shifts. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
She had wanted them to choose a Shakespeare play or the Bible, but Sam had perversely chosen the dictionary.
In a perverse sort of way it actually gives you a bit of confidence that you are on to something. Times, Sunday Times
One begins to wonder perversely whether the artist will soon utterly abase herself before our eyes.
Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
Thus parts of the city - dumps, landfills and junkyards - are both unpeopled and unclaimed, yet perversely organic in the manner in which junk simply accumulates and grows.
The third novel is hardly a novel at all, though the author perversely insisted on saying it was.
For critics for whom 'reason' is always partisan and coercive, such an aspiration must seem perversely self-destructive.
Somewhat perversely, spearfishing is still allowed within the area of the marine reserve, so I don't blame the big fish for being cautious.
The way in which O'Connor's work embodies a particular interpretation of Catholic doctrine has always seemed to me the least interesting subject of inquiry into her fiction, and, as Anderson does correctly note, most non-scholarly readers remain unaware that it even is a subject relevant to the fiction, so fully isthat fictionotherwise focused on its depiction of its Southern mileu, grotesque characters, and perversely melodramatic events. Signature Elements
Where, however, a jury reaches a perverse verdict on the evidence, it is open to the Court of Appeal, to reverse that verdict.
Perhaps the most perverse reason for higher tuition costs is that institutions of higher learning rarely, if ever, zero-base their budgets. Jonathan R. Cole: No Concept of Death
It's retro kitsch, wonderfully camp, gleefully perverse and exaggerated and utterly great fun throughout.
For Mr. Krastev, this idea - the trade-off between exit and voice - is the key to understanding what he describes as the "perverse" stability of Vladimir Putin's Russia. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
It seems a perverse choice of circus skill to impart. Times, Sunday Times
That perverse guy has been nagging at me all day.
This may seem a contradictory, even perverse, claim.
The blatancy of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists.
Today, perversely, government is retreating from the limited areas where it has a natural responsibility.
Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
He gets perverse satisfaction from embarrassing people.
This perverse attitude says more about their blinkered view of what the country should aspire to be.
But in place of Hardy's pathos is a perverse little smile that's blessedly contagious. 'Tamara' And 'Funny Story': Uneasy, But Amusing
If you also felt your father didn't love you, it might have instilled in you a perverse need for men to prove their love. Times, Sunday Times
As happens to most men of such quality who attack the accepted smugness and intellectual sloth of their times, he was stamped as a perverse pugnacious fellow who delighted in being against the wisdom of the age.
As Michiko Kakutani explained in a review of the novel in The New York Times just after the fatwa was issued, one character in the novel is “a businessman turned prophet named Mahound - a figure whom Muslim critics regard as a thinly and perversely disguised representation of the Prophet Mohammed.” Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Londoners have long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well.
Thousands of e-mails began pouring in, some writers chastising us with perverse and filthy language while others described us as heroes with guts.
The gospel message here seems to be taking a perverse delight in being particularly contrary. Times, Sunday Times
The trip in effect becomes a perverse pilgrimage. Times, Sunday Times
For some perverse reason he is refusing to see a doctor.
What if he'd just set up this practice as a kind of joke, or because he got some kind of perverse pleasure out of cutting bits out of people's gnashers, whilst an assistant sucks all the excess liquid and gunk out of their mouth through a tube?
This mindset's assumption is a perverse conception of culture.
It would be utterly illogical and perverse to deal with this matter on anything other than a UK-wide basis.
a perverse mood
Ruthlessness toward members of the same species is not only unethical and unaesthetic, it is perverse, against nature.
As a victim that feels very perverse and wrong. The Sun
It is a system open to manipulation and full of perverse incentives. Times, Sunday Times
It follows, that the desire to be well must be excited simultaneously with any principle which shall be merely a modification of combativeness, but in the case of that something which I term perverseness, the desire to be well is not only not aroused, but a strongly antagonistical sentiment exists. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse?
Maybe they defined themselves in opposition to pathology—or maybe they perversely embraced it.
Yet in a perverse way, this hubris by the Senate's more potent conservative bloc compounds the value of any dissent.
The upshot is that the conglomerates and the government have a perverse incentive to allow the system to continue to fester.
Perversely, I feel liberated by the thought of adherence to a strict set of rules. LOVE YOU MADLY
It is submitted that there has been no perverseness here.
Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse?
But there still clung to her what I fear we must call a perverseness of obstinacy, Can you forgive her?
He practices directing as antithetically and abusively to the author's intentions as perversely possible, reaping kudos from benighted reviewers and audiences alike.
It is too perversely rebarbative an opera to be, as I say, exactly enjoyable, but you begin to wonder if life, with its sado-masochistic tensions below the surface, isn't sometimes like this.
They are lazy and greedy and obstructive and perverse, and often just chaotic. Times, Sunday Times
Maisie's ‘wondering’ consciousness becomes the medium of a perverse animation, an uncanny crossover or transmutation between animate and inanimate, person and thing.
The wrong creative direction will leave you looking infantile, puerile or perverse. Times, Sunday Times
Joyce was a fine reader of character, and knew it was quite within Arleen's capabilities to be so perverse. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
In a perverse way it might be quite fun. Times, Sunday Times
In the event, the judge held that the decision was not perverse and he dismissed the appeal.
With a similar perverseness, the potatoes crumble off forks in the process of peeling, upheaving from their centres in every direction, as if they were subject to earthquakes. Bleak House
But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse?
It was a perverse choice considering most radio stations would be unable to broadcast the unedited album version.
The trip in effect becomes a perverse pilgrimage. Times, Sunday Times
(Your point about the Italian baroque is spot on — although being my perverse self, I listen to Vivaldi and Scarlatti hanging on for the proto-Expressionist moments.) The Long Goodbye
His decision to work in mezzotint was partly perverse, as it was an antiquated medium so labor-intensive that it was only rarely practiced.
With the state trying to save energy through its efficiency standards, that incentive seemed increasingly perverse — especially after energy prices again soared after the second oil shock, in 1979. The California Experiment
So, ironically, even the economic consequences of the neo-liberal program are likely to be quite perverse in practice.
She is wearing a plain black, ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
It's perverse of him to buy hot dogs when we want ice - cream .
I find a perverse delight in listening to traffic.
Perversely, the Trocks, who always have one foot in genuine balletomania, are ahead of the curve when it comes to historic revivals.
The example du jour is his persistent, some might say perverse desire to ram roads through some of our last old-growth forests.
Could he be trying to prove himself in some perverse way? Times, Sunday Times
Lefty Liberal, I must confess to a certain perverse desire to see these obese old fools try to get it up, given all the machismo bluster and weapon brandishing. Think Progress » Tea partiers skip prayer and Pledge of Allegiance at opening of national convention.
took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans
It's perverse of him to buy hot dogs when we want ice - cream .
If this theory be right, then Voltaire must naturally be abhorred by all persons who hold it, as a perverse and mischievous hinderer of light. Voltaire
For the perverse pleasure in wanton (self -) destruction? A most poor credulous monster
Perversely this album recalls neither the studied club groove nor the agreeably dark pop embraced by its predecessor, and consequentially sounds strangely more accessible.
Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse?
To keep him in suspense would have been perverse, anyway. Times, Sunday Times
In an exceptional feat of perverse alchemy he has, during his 22 years in office, changed gold into lead and ruined a once relatively prosperous southern African state.
The trip in effect becomes a perverse pilgrimage. Times, Sunday Times
It's all right, you confounded muddlehead!" cried the Crow, losing patience with his perverse and stupid companion. For the term of his natural life
In a perverse way it might be quite fun. Times, Sunday Times
She has fantasies of murdering both of them, but everything seems to indicate that she decides rather to immure herself in a perverse pact with the house servant. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release
Gerrymandered districts all but guarantee most incumbents reelection, while term limits offer a perverse incentive for cynical self-promotion in furtherance of individual ambition over cooperative collaboration in service of the public interest. Phony Poll Critique; Why We All Can’t Just Get Along
A straight and well-contriv'd _Mind_, finds it easier to yield to a perverse one, than to direct and manage it. The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country
Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; until — perhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lids — little Pearl awoke! The Scarlet Letter
Surely, the incident Webbb chronicled is less “perverse” than America’s history of slavery. Waldo Jaquith - Allen angry about “Lost Soldiers.”
Who else but HBO could truly do justice to an unexpurgated concert special showcasing the Madonna of the new millennium: the protean and prolific and perversely unpredictable Lady Gaga. Matt's Weekend Picks: May 6-8
The internet has ushered in a brave new world of access to a polymorphously perverse spectrum of erotica, pornography and discussion.
Now I understood how women felt when being leched at by some perverse and dirty old man.
I have always had an almost perverse desire to mix with people who make their living from crime.
The liar, by contrast, is concerned with the truth, in a perverse sort of fashion: he wants to lead us away from it.
It might seem perverse to see two housebuilders on the list. Times, Sunday Times
Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
Constant interference has resulted in the perverse outcome of a glut of flats and a shortage of family homes with gardens. The Sun
Yuuzhan Vong technology is bizarre and perverse, though it is nonetheless effective.
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
In a perverse sense, it is more honest, where Eliot sneaks a couple of loathsome Jewish portraitures into his poetry, distorted so grossly that they are obviously despicable.
The notion that a perverse finding of fact does not reveal an error of law in a court of law of our judicature is one I will never accept never, ever.
The nurse had a perverse need to be at the centre of the action on the accident and emergency ward. Times, Sunday Times
I say 'perversely' because so many ISPs larger than Exetel and who presumably buy at much better rates than Exetel seem to think it's the end of the world since Telstra Retail announced their new ADSL2 plans. ITnews Australia
Perversely, there are strangely distorted echoes of Morris in the latest fashions for "empowerment."
All these perverse incentives drive the price up. The Sun
Perversely, the fact that beta-caryophyllene is an extremely cheap and common natural chemical may stand in the way of its usage; big pharmaceutical companies tend not to seek FDA approval for natural chemicals, and most doctors are reluctant to prescribe drugs that have not received a green light from the regulatory agency. Some Proof That Marijuana is a Powerful Medicine | Disinformation
The nurse had a perverse need to be at the centre of the action on the accident and emergency ward. Times, Sunday Times
The streets are immaculately and perversely neat.
It was good for our preconceived notions of interpretation to be challenged, but occasionally what seemed strange pull-ups and allargandos, might have been considered perverse.
(I put the perverse in quotations because I fear to be called prudish by Freudians.) The Foundations of Personality
In looking at food, nutrition, and the perverse phenomenon of overnutrition, many of us have had occasion to notice and cite the fact that worldwide, roughly the same number of people are starving as are overweight. Talking to the Author of ‘Stuffed and Starved’ - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
I'm one of these perverse people who will deliberately take a spite against something, just because everyone else likes it.
Cox las vegas, exile and rss stipend malabo to collectively proration the ibidem cryptocercus of cosmos web substring and strabotomy boundlessly to muskat that runoff them. that shamanism the tenter in savant is the unofficially westward of territorialisation, a photogenic carposporous perversely of atheromatic the melampsoraceae, and masseuse and platyrrhini our isometropia. Rational Review
The cottage the gate belonged to had disappeared, but perversely its gate had been left behind.
Constant interference has resulted in the perverse outcome of a glut of flats and a shortage of family homes with gardens. The Sun
What distinguishes his recent work is an almost maternal sympathy for the perverseness of the human animal - and the twists in its fate.
Oozing a silky menace reminiscent of Kevin Spacey at his creepiest, John comes face to face with Patrick Jane in a crowded mall food court, where the psychopath's perverse cool is deliciously unsettling. Matt's TV Week in Review
But something—a little worm of perverse honorableness gnawing at my heart or was it some other part of me? Kalooki Nights
I’ve been watching Gordon Ramsay’s ridiculous show “Kitchen Nightmares” on Fox for the last three weeks, and I really must admit, it’s the most deliberately pre-planned, same-thing-every-time reality show I’ve ever seen to the point where I actually kind of perversely enjoy it. Every Episode of “Kitchen Nightmares” In One Convenient Blog Post | Best Week Ever
Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
In Bushell's case habeas corpus was used to release a juryman who had been gaoled for returning what the court regarded as a perverse verdict.
She seemed perversely proud of her criminal record.
In a perverse reversal of all her hopes and dreams, she had been granted the exact opposite of her heart's desire. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Is it about the fundamentally deluded nature of human existence, or its perverse, incorrigible optimism?
The opportunity to link in with the global economy and join the world community in commerce and the exchange of ideas and ideals has been repudiated for the dogmatic "certainty" of a perverse, atavistic gynophobia, where the "enemy within" is as handy as mother, sister, daughter, wife. Afghanistan's McGenerals
The last holdover of the old way of thinking is the Catholic catechism, which keeps gluttony on its list of sins and indicates — by using the word gourmandise in the French version, and by defining sin in part as “a perverse attachment to certain goods” — that the original meaning of gluttony is to be understood. Hard to Swallow
And that is part of why it would actually be perverse from a public policy perspective to forbid the banks in better shape right now from offering bonuses. Matthew Yglesias » More Executive Compensation
The system is full of perverse incentives. Times, Sunday Times
We need to highlight that it is a very warped and perverse sense of honour. The Sun

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