PERVERSITY


Meaning of PERVERSITY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But she was marrying Changez out of perversity , I was sure of it.

I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity .

It was aware of being a scene of perversity , it knew its own despair.

My perversity had seemed to me amusing.

Or words are preserved, perhaps through some occupational perversity , that mix totally inconsistent meanings.

Out of sheer perversity , the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.

The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time.

With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.

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