as in undesirability
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Noun
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While some recent sales have been sluggish — Susan Gutfreund’s 12,000-square-foot duplex listed for $120 million in 2016 and finally sold for $53 million three years later, that seems more a symptom of delusional pricing than undesirability.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
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For me, there’s always the perversity of getting on a trendy bandwagon and just liking it for the irony.—
Marc Malkin,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Here, Henkel leans into the inherent perversity that lingered in the sequels but has rarely been effectively employed since Hooper’s original.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Sep. 2025
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The push came amid concerns about the offensiveness of the name.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Oct. 2025
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There was a Lynchian quality to the podcast, a fun-house-size absurdism that offset its overt offensiveness.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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According to Jackson, that is a perversion of the law.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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The depth of his depravity is beyond the pale.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2026
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With each new release of documents, flight logs and testimony, the public is confronted with not just the depravity of one man, but with the social orbit that surrounded him.—
Kaitlyn Buss,
Boston Herald,
8 Feb. 2026
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Pearl revels in wickedness, presenting a literary world in which a successful writer’s haughtiness is both encouraged and rewarded.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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But despite this being the internet, there’s no wickedness being thrust around — everyone’s taking the chance to get in on a memeless rollout.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
25 Nov. 2025
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