William Godwin

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

English Writer

John Hodgman

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

American Comedian

George Akerlof

When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

American Economist

Gil Penchina

You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over.

American Businessman

Harlan Coben

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

American Author

Richard Russo

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

American Novelist

Hedy Lamarr

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Austrian Actress

Zadie Smith

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

British Novelist

Sadiq Khan

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

British Politician

Warren Buffett

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Used when someone knowingly behaves in an odd way.

Intentionally Unusual

Describes actions aimed to upset or shock others.

Provocative Actions

Highlights a choice that goes against logical expectations.

Contradictory Choices

Shows a refusal to change, even when it's reasonable to do so.

Defiant Stubbornness

Highlights when someone is proudly and irrationally inflexible.

Obstinate Pride

Refers to sexual acts seen as socially or morally unacceptable.

Social Taboos

Associated with unusual or shockingly uncommon sexual interests.

Controversial Interest

Conveys a negative judgment of sexual behaviors outside societal norms.

Unnatural Connotation

 There is no earthly reason why your name is printed on a chip-and-PIN card. And if you think about it, it's even more insidious and perverse than it seems at first. Because the only people that benefit from having the name on the card are criminals. You know what your name is, right? And when you go into a shop and buy something,

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 That's because retaliation protections are weak and immigrant day laborers don't tend to come forward because they don't trust the system to protect them. US wage and hour laws require employers to pay wages for all work completed, regardless of legal status. Otherwise, there's a perverse incentive to cheat.

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 imagine that you are a struggling high school student. Imagine that you are at risk of dropping out of school. And yet, suppose you know that at some point in the future, no matter what, you're going to get the same basic income as everyone else. Now, to my mind, that creates a very perverse incentive

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 foot off the brake there that was not sensor it was me I think that listening to the elephant's feeding through the thicket they do look a little bit wary that that you right in front is on high alert at the moment you can see the perverse years before she moves out into

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 So we have this perverse incentive where union leadership ends up not really representing the values even of the rest of the union members. But they have massive, outsized negotiating power. So yes, engaging with and appropriate rightsizing of labor protections,

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 becomes an asterisk at the bottom of equality pages. No one ever thinks of us as human because we are more ghost than flesh, because people fear that my gender expression is a trick, that it exists to be perverse, that it ensnares them without their consent,

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 which is somewhat reasonable, because in fact, we have designed this system where, if you want to get a job, it's much more important to have a car that runs, to have a job and keep a job, than to have a GED. And that's actually very perverse.

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 Do you think you'd continue doing the thing that you were doing? Would you continue doing that thing that's irritating your attacker? Online abuse has been this perverse art of figuring out what makes people angry, what makes people afraid,

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 inverted perverse funhouse mirror she is also a storyteller she weaves powerful narratives except instead of doing it to show the truth to actually help make the world a better place she does it to deceive people I mean think about how

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 is at least in mind that are not fundamentally inflexible some of these verses are definite in meaning it says and others are ambiguous the perverse at heart will seek out the ambiguities trying to create the score by pinning

Perverse