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Meanings of perversity in English

Catalan
perversitat
Spanish
terquedad

Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.

perversitat
Usage of perversity in English
1
Passages in his letters are almost comical in their perversity of misjudgment.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
2
It was weakness; it was this disease of perversity overcoming his will.
Under Western Eyes
3
That was in our list, but the perversity of the time-table forbade.
Familiar Spanish Travels
4
Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance.
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
5
With even more perversity, one might judge Paley's observation as undoubtedly correct.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
6
She wondered if that were anything more meaningful than just natural perversity.
The Visioning: A Novel
7
The choicest of them will furnish us examples of a strange perversity.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
8
Despite this perversity, there was an integrity to Alan that commanded respect.
A week in december
9
With the usual perversity of your sex you pursue a pig policy.
The Luckiest Girl in the School
10
The matter begins and ends with the boy's own perversity and folly.
The Woman in White
11
As usual, when perversity defends, the pleading reached the judge too late.
The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
12
Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
Young Lives
13
And what seemed to him her stubborn perversity drove him to despair.
Delia Blanchflower
14
Under her sauciest rattle of fun or perversity lurked some subtle meaning.
At Last: A Novel
15
He besought her not to ruin her parent by such monstrous perversity.
The Way We Live Now
16
But-perhaps it was from perversity-herwarning only served to strengthen his determination.
Charles Rex
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Perversity through the time
Perversity across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common