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Perversive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to pervert.

    "There is a widely diffused notion that among all specimens of animal creation man alone possesses any glimmering of reason. This notion is largely fallacious. It is one of those ideas, based upon superficial knowledge, which appeal to the sophisticated modern public. Its initial emergence and its popularity are alike due to the confounding of what is hereditary with what is acquired, and to the perversive confusion between instinct and knowledge."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to corrupt or pervert wordnet

Etymology

From Latin pervers-, the past participial stem of pervertō, + -ive.

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