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Meanings of sheer perversity in inglês

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Usage of sheer perversity in inglês
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Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.
The Fountains of Paradise
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Thus fuelled by sheer perversity, she set off along it.
Complete Books of Blood
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Then, by sheer perversity, I may grow out of them.
Mince Pie
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It might be from sheer perversity, but she had never been like that before!
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
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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
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Unless it were a freak of sheer perversity.
Mary Wollaston
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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
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It looks to me like sheer perversity.
Princess
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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Superseded
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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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