PERVERSION in a Sentence

Learn PERVERSION from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For PERVERSION, below is one of 44 sentences:
If you had daylight, it would be worth the trouble to step up on the height of this rock, and look at the perversity of the water.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERVERSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perversion
 n.  act of perverting, or state of being perverted; turning from truth or right; a change to something worse; turning or applying to a wrong end or use
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The evil lies yet deeper: in her total ignorance, unsuspiciousness of there being such feelings; in a perversion of mind which made it natural to her to treat the subject as she did.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  Of these the first and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the facts.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
3  I saw in this that I, too, was tormented by a perversion of ingenuity, even while the prize was reserved for me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
4  The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
5  Inclination as well as perversity made the decision easy, and being already much excited, Meg opposed the old lady with unusual spirit.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
6  Catherine, by instinct, must have divined it was obdurate perversity, and not dislike, that prompted this dogged conduct; for, after remaining an instant undecided, she stooped and impressed on his cheek a gentle kiss.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  Yet some perversity had made her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  And then he would put his hand into her bosom and feel her breasts, and kiss them in exultation, the exultation of perversity, of being a child when he was a man.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  If you had daylight, it would be worth the trouble to step up on the height of this rock, and look at the perversity of the water.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
10  So, I suppose, this obstinacy and perversity were pleasanter to them than any advantage.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
11  And, finally, to the men who feared demagogues and the natural perversity of some human beings we insisted that time and bitter experience would teach the most hardheaded.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  He had almost seemed like a human being and not the perverse wretch she knew so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Like monkeys or small children turned loose among treasured objects whose value is beyond their comprehension, they ran wild--either from perverse pleasure in destruction or simply because of their ignorance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  It was odd that he of all people should appear in this light, for he was as unstable as quicksilver and as perverse as a demon fresh from the pit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  How perverse of him to evade the issue so neatly, as if not caring whether children came had anything to do with their actual arrival.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
Example Sentence:
1  Her account was a perversion of the truth.
2  The novels of the Marquis de Sade deal with sexual perversion.
3  What we once called a perversion, we now call it an alternative lifestyle.
4  The author of the book seems to be obsessed with sexual perversity and death.
5  Jack was being perverse and refusing to agree with anything we said.
6  It's perverse of him to buy hot dogs when we want ice - cream.
7  This kind of reasoning is deeply perverse.
8  When Jack was in a perverse mood, he would do the opposite of whatever Jill asked him.
9  I don't feel sexy most of the time, and although my libido is running perversely high, I'm not really doing anything about it.