transcription, транскрипция: [ pə(r)vɜ:(r)s ]
Someone who is perverse deliberately does things that are unreasonable or that result in harm for themselves.
It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend...
In some perverse way the ill-matched partners do actually need each other.
ADJ : oft it v-link ADJ to-inf [ disapproval ]
• per‧verse‧ly
She was perversely pleased to be causing trouble...
ADV : usu ADV with v