adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
perverse pleasure (= unreasonable, surprising, or bad )
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Some people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
incentive
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There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives , as we have seen in Chapter 3.
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Much of the problem of the underclass, we continue to believe, arises from perverse incentives rooted in misguided paternalism.
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The upshot is that the conglomerates and the government have a perverse incentive to allow the system to continue to fester.
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Nevertheless, this raises questions about resourcing, the possibility of duplication of services and of perverse incentives .
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Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.
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What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions?
way
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In a perverse way , the same is now true of modern capitalism.
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Our desires to eat have been repressed, and so they surface in extreme and perverse ways .
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We also know that they may react in a slightly perverse way to our advertising.
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In my own perverse way , I approved of this single paradox in her newly forming, but not reforming, character.
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Faced with such apparently perverse ways of thinking it is easy to conclude that they can not possibly reason as we reason.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a perverse policy
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People in Minneapolis take a perverse pride in how cold their winters are.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accordingly, the initial reaction of the equity markets was utterly perverse .
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But he didn't know that, and a perverse sense of devilry urged her to lead him on.
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His characters seem at first sight useless or even perverse .
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In a perverse way, the same is now true of modern capitalism.
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Louise could be perverse , often for reasons unclear to him.
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Sadistic people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this.
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The whole idea is too perverse .
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These perverse effects are compounded by the heavy political price that has to be paid: the abandonment of monetary sovereignty.