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Significados de perversity en inglés

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Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.

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Uso de perversity en inglés
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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
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Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance.
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
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With even more perversity, one might judge Paley's observation as undoubtedly correct.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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She wondered if that were anything more meaningful than just natural perversity.
The Visioning: A Novel
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The choicest of them will furnish us examples of a strange perversity.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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Despite this perversity, there was an integrity to Alan that commanded respect.
A week in december
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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
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As usual, when perversity defends, the pleading reached the judge too late.
The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
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Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
Young Lives
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And what seemed to him her stubborn perversity drove him to despair.
Delia Blanchflower
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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
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But-perhaps it was from perversity-herwarning only served to strengthen his determination.
Charles Rex
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