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Meanings of perverse pride in anglès

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Usage of perverse pride in anglès
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But by dint of some perverse pride she refused to do so.
The Mantooth
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They seem to take a perverse pride in being so consistently underestimated.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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Ankou managed a smile, maybe two parts self-awareness to three parts perverse pride.
Bedlam
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There was almost a perverse pride among Rationals in their relative poverty of perception.
The Gods Themselves
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Katie Hopkins personifies the perverse pride the narcissist takes in not caring for others.
The Guardian
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When I wasn't shitting myself I took a perverse pride in being a successful grizzly man.
The power of one
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My perverse pride that I'd been with Russell.
The Girls
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Soon enough you would thoroughly despise me, and though I should know it was merited, my perverse pride would revolt against it.
New Grub Street
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Only the perverse pride and will that had slowly taken hold of her, kept her from running away at the sight of him.
The Mantooth
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Next came Alarkane, from a race which was one of the youngest in the Universe and took a perverse pride in the fact.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Whether guilty or not, they took a perverse pride in refusing to court public opinion through dishonest means -which made them poor politicians.
The Guardian
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In the warning oaths communicated by his Flock elders, he had detected some perverse pride in the confusion the Scarlet had brought on them.
The flock
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For if a man loves himself, perverse pride, head and source of every ill, lives in him, whatever his rank may be, prelate or subject.
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
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