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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she was marrying Changez out of perversity , I was sure of it.
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I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity .
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It was aware of being a scene of perversity , it knew its own despair.
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My perversity had seemed to me amusing.
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Or words are preserved, perhaps through some occupational perversity , that mix totally inconsistent meanings.
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Out of sheer perversity , the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.
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The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time.
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With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.