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Meanings of sheer perversity in English

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Usage of sheer perversity in English
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Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.
The Fountains of Paradise
2
Thus fuelled by sheer perversity, she set off along it.
Complete Books of Blood
3
Then, by sheer perversity, I may grow out of them.
Mince Pie
4
It might be from sheer perversity, but she had never been like that before!
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
5
You may, from sheer perversity, utter them in a rich and sonorous baritone or bass.
And Even Now
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It was sheer perversity, she decided, that kept him from mentioning the subject to her.
Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great Ci...
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He's quite capable of marrying her from sheer perversity.
The Patrician
8
Unless it were a freak of sheer perversity.
Mary Wollaston
9
For some mysterious reason-fromsheer perversity, she thought-shehad taken a strong physical dislike to him.
The Price She Paid
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Would she continue in the course she had chosen in sheer perversity, in sheer fidelity to herself?
The Mayor of Warwick
11
It looks to me like sheer perversity.
Princess
12
This I set down to sheer perversity.
And Even Now
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Such sheer perversity maddened him.
The Tyranny of Weakness
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She seemed to have attached herself to the unpopular teacher out of sheer perversity and malignant contempt of public opinion.
Superseded
15
The barn door was open, and by sheer perversity some bundles of straw were peeping out, luring Slimak to a doze.
Selected Polish Tales
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There are men who through sheer perversity renounce their faith, and are not ashamed to vilify the religion which they once professed.
Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
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