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Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.

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        Uso de perverseness em inglês
        1
        There was neither self-will, perverseness, nor antagonism, in this; but paralysis instead.
        The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring
        2
        There is another exhibition of perverseness which we sometimes see in families.
        Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
        3
        There is often a perverseness in inanimate things which is beyond endurance.
        The Lost Trail
        4
        It is not from humour, from perverseness, that I insist upon this.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
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        Such is the perverseness of the feminine nature, even in Morovenia.
        The Slim Princess
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        The thought disturbed me; the perverseness, the fragility of the deception.
        The Girls
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        There is rebellion and perverseness mingled with the helplessness and ignorance and sorrow.
        Preaching and Paganism
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        In spite of our old world perverseness, that Power pours on.
        The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
        9
        And still the emigrant princes were adding to her perplexity by their perverseness.
        The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
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        And yet he loved her none the less for her perverseness.
        Christmas Outside of Eden
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        She reflected upon my Norton, as if she encouraged me in my perverseness.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
        12
        He dared not think of what her perverseness might yet lead her to.
        Philip Winwood / A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American...
        13
        She blushed again and again over the perverseness of the meeting.
        Pride and Prejudice
        14
        But I had not told her what I had out of sheer perverseness.
        The Great Book of Amber
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        Tim attended, but an imp of perverseness seemed to rule him.
        Don Strong, Patrol Leader
        16
        Whether the same corruption and perverseness were to be expected from the nobles?
        The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 / Historical...
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