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Meanings of perverseness in inglés
catalán
perversitat español
terquedad Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.
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Examples for "perversity"
Examples for "perversity"
1
Passages in his letters are almost comical in their perversity of misjudgment.
2
It was weakness; it was this disease of perversity overcoming his will.
3
That was in our list, but the perversity of the time-table forbade.
4
Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance.
5
With even more perversity, one might judge Paley's observation as undoubtedly correct.
1
The innate contrariness of things seemed to be blocking all his plans.
2
It seems that the artistic personality has a certain contrariness to it.
3
Nevertheless the British soldiers, with characteristic contrariness, declared their preference for it.
4
Jack ran away of his own free-will, and out of downright contrariness.
5
There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine.
Usage of perverseness in inglés
1
There was neither self-will, perverseness, nor antagonism, in this; but paralysis instead.
2
There is another exhibition of perverseness which we sometimes see in families.
3
There is often a perverseness in inanimate things which is beyond endurance.
4
It is not from humour, from perverseness, that I insist upon this.
5
Such is the perverseness of the feminine nature, even in Morovenia.
6
The thought disturbed me; the perverseness, the fragility of the deception.
7
There is rebellion and perverseness mingled with the helplessness and ignorance and sorrow.
8
In spite of our old world perverseness, that Power pours on.
9
And still the emigrant princes were adding to her perplexity by their perverseness.
10
And yet he loved her none the less for her perverseness.
11
She reflected upon my Norton, as if she encouraged me in my perverseness.
12
He dared not think of what her perverseness might yet lead her to.
13
She blushed again and again over the perverseness of the meeting.
14
But I had not told her what I had out of sheer perverseness.
15
Tim attended, but an imp of perverseness seemed to rule him.
16
Whether the same corruption and perverseness were to be expected from the nobles?
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Perverseness through the time
Perverseness across language varieties
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