perversed

Example Sentences

• "He describes the people of Maine in these words: "Magistrates, Husbandmen or Planters and fishermen; of the magistrates some be royalists, the rest perversed spirits, the like are the planters and fishers, of which some be planters and fishers both, others meer fishers; there are but few handscraftmen, and no shopkeepers; English goods being kept by the Massachusetts merchants, here and there, on the coast, at a profit of one per cent. in exchange for fish.""
• "A dull, heavy headache is frequently present, cutaneous sensibility of often perversed sharp pains, numbness, itching, etc."
• "Sexuality is perversed when it is reduced to one of its separate components."
• "Such a condition indicates perversed physiological function or pathology, or possibly the two combined, and may have origin in the gastro-intestinal tract, the cardio-vascular, cardio-renal, respiratory, or any other system in the body."
• "The patient becomes listless, sluggish, irritable, perversed in desires, unreasonable and passes through varied stages of mental decay to ultimate insanity."
• "The democracy distilled and diluted by these repressive organs has to be perversed democracy."