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Meanings of perverse in English

Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.

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Resistant to guidance or discipline.

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Deviating from what is considered right or proper or good.

Perverse.

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Usage of perverse in English
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Things are tough. Hazel Blears MP said sanctions led to 'perverse outcomes'.
The Guardian
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In its typical, perverse way, the award went to Klaxons that year.
The Guardian
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It also demonstrates, in a perverse way, real progress in racial equality.
Reuters
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As always with a target, it is likely to create perverse behaviour.
The Guardian
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The Legislature was still stiff-necked and perverse in regard to the system.
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
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They say that creates a perverse incentive to employ fewer qualifed workers.
Radio NZ
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People have a perverse desire to buy high, sell low, Fisher said.
Reuters
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Our perverse nod to the Mantle exhibited cruelty far beyond simple extinction.
Halo Silentium
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I never saw so perverse and self-willed a child in my life.
The Iron Rule; Or, Tyranny in the Household
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All I know is that she was dealing with a perverse individual.
Three stations: an arkady renko novel
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It sounded almost perverse to us until we received the formal notification.
The new yorker
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It's that perverse optimism that Mark Ronson captures in Late Night Feelings.
The Guardian
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This is, by the way, a perverse theory that Philip completely endorses.
The new yorker
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Quite the opposite -she took a perverse enjoyment from that, too.
The Naked God
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Sometimes they are deliberately perverse, and obscure... But it was no good.
Julian
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I love this. That's perverse, and such a person surely doesn't exist.
The Guardian
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