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perversitat español
terquedad Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.
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Examples for "perversity"
Examples for "perversity"
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Passages in his letters are almost comical in their perversity of misjudgment.
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It was weakness; it was this disease of perversity overcoming his will.
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That was in our list, but the perversity of the time-table forbade.
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Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance.
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With even more perversity, one might judge Paley's observation as undoubtedly correct.
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There was neither self-will, perverseness, nor antagonism, in this; but paralysis instead.
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There is another exhibition of perverseness which we sometimes see in families.
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There is often a perverseness in inanimate things which is beyond endurance.
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It is not from humour, from perverseness, that I insist upon this.
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Such is the perverseness of the feminine nature, even in Morovenia.
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The innate contrariness of things seemed to be blocking all his plans.
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It seems that the artistic personality has a certain contrariness to it.
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Nevertheless the British soldiers, with characteristic contrariness, declared their preference for it.
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Jack ran away of his own free-will, and out of downright contrariness.
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There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine.
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Beatrix says that it is just because of my innate contrariness.
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It might be sheer contrariness, but it stuck me as odd.
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For contrariness he was more than I have ever had to deal with.
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What contrariness has set you so intense against your own argument?
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It's all due to de contrariness ob Boomerang, an' if I-
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Just as if girls went into hard and trying occupations from mere contrariness!
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The always-wide-awake-contrariness of womankind is a curious and fearful thing.
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Yet I profess to have a reason beyond mere contrariness.
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To dream of an overcoat, denotes you will suffer from contrariness, exhibited by others.
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In August, Coffin wrote to Mix that The contrariness and (cont.)
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I think of the contrariness of Nan Toner, negotiating roadblocks on her way to Dundalk.
