Life on the road can be fun, and cruel, and there is some perversive pleasure about sharing your woes with others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning About Blogging and How to Blog « Lorelle on WordPress] Reference

It's the Right that finds Wrongthink to be both pervasive and perversive.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

But against any perversive doctrine we must in all honesty take a firm stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference

My motivation for the hacking was a perversive desire to read e-books in other but the English languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [LXer Linux News] Reference

How well those Pharaohs, Menæs, and Cheops knew man as the most perversive, destructive and evil of animals!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Companions of Jehu] Reference

In the case of Luigi, sturdy son though he was of Northern Italy, a sort of degeneration had set in, a slow rot, caused by the softening, perversive influence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2] Reference

Federal Government is the exclusive judge of the extent as well as the limitations of its power, it seems to me to be utterly perversive of the sovereignty and independence of the States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference

"fine arts" is unjust to art and perversive of right appreciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference

'election,' and become reprobate, then your theory is contradictory, absurd, and grossly perversive of the gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States.] Reference

A chillness in the blood, a slackening in the sinews, a dissipation of the generative seed, a numbness and hebetation of the senses, with a perversive wryness and convulsion of the muscles, all which are great lets and impediments to the act of generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference

The department did not present any evidence of danger to the physical health or safety of any male children or any female children who had not reached puberty, nor did the department offer any evidence that any of the realtors, meaning the folks who are at the house, pubescent female children, were in physical danger other than that those children live in the ranch among a group of people who have a perversive system of belief that condone polygamist marriage and underage females having children. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 22, 2008] Reference

As many countries did it afterwards, after WWII, those industries and services that implied big capital sustainment were state property: petrol (that, USA mighties never forgave), railway, electricity, telephones, air lines, health and social security, public universities, all with the perversive purpose of state service and non-profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Among the quirkier suggestions received were vanishing points, from Terry Munson, of Pawleys Island, S.C.; ameniteases, from Chandler Fulton, of New York City; fair-weather vends, from Dan Tanner, of Bloomington, Minn.; serenmissity, from Marc Bloch, of Seattle; hydensequitous, from Bill Andrews, of Bon Air, Va.; and perversive, from Bob Lewis, of Richland, Wash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Fugitives] Reference