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adjective

Perverse adj.

Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. "The only righteous in a world perverse."

Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. "To so perverse a sex all grace is vain."

Synonyms: Froward; untoward; wayward; stubborn; ungovernable; intractable; cross; petulant; vexatious. Perverse, Froward. One who is froward is capricious, and reluctant to obey. One who is perverse has a settled obstinacy of will, and likes or dislikes by the rule of contradiction to the will of others.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the glasses and half-glasses in which he had answered his friends' congratulations must have amounted to a considerable number. If he tried to concentrate his thoughts on any particular subject, they slipped away from him in the most perverse manner. He reflected vaguely that this was the kind of mood in which he had of old committed all manner of pleasant follies and youthful indiscretions. And why not? Was he not young, ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

... bed, and thinking over all these marvellous visions, this perverse hypocrite came down from his mountain, placed his hollow stick to her ear, as before, and commanded her, once for all, to obey the message and take her daughter to the hermit for ...

— One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles • Various

... at that moment returning to his place with a cup of hot coffee. By some perverse trick of fate his glance fell on Doble's sinister face of malignant triumph. His self-control snapped, and in an instant the whole course of his life was deflected from the path it would otherwise have taken. With ...

— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine

... it. Although Mr. Dicey endeavors not to commit himself upon the vital differences in the agitation of anti-slavery sentiments by the Abolitionists and by the Republican party, it is very evident that he inclines to the belief that the former, in their advocacy of disunion, acted not from a perverse and fanatical philosophy, but from the logical compulsions of a critical understanding, stimulated by an intense conviction of ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... STORY. An honest man, with a chance pleasantry, putteth to shame the perverse hypocrisy of the religious ...

— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

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