Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.
Resistant to guidance or discipline.
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Examples for "contrary "
Examples for "contrary "
1 He said the Government would present a scientific opinion to the contrary .
2 But most of the empirical evidence thus far points to the contrary .
3 Not that debate on this issue should be suppressed, quite the contrary .
4 But political conditions have a tendency of changing unannounced - and contrary to reason.
5 Quite the contrary , he listened to every word with the greatest concern.
1 In fact, at the time, I thought he was simply being obstinate .
2 The contest was obstinate , and terminated in the death of the challenger.
3 She was not wilful; she was not obstinate ; she gave him affection.
4 Now they thought her obstinate refusal was a result of Scobie's influence.
5 On this issue the dispute in the convention was obstinate and irreconcilable.
1 Perhaps the biggest alterations involve the health conditions of the wayward lovers.
2 And he almost did, despite a wayward drive, and the short approach.
3 Homeowner associations typically have the right to place liens against wayward residents.
4 She was fourteen at this time; altogether exquisite and charming and wayward .
5 I have been wayward at times; I beg pardon of you all.
Deviating from what is considered right or proper or good.
1 Things are tough. Hazel Blears MP said sanctions led to ' perverse outcomes'.
2 In its typical, perverse way, the award went to Klaxons that year.
3 It also demonstrates, in a perverse way, real progress in racial equality.
4 As always with a target, it is likely to create perverse behaviour.
5 The Legislature was still stiff-necked and perverse in regard to the system.
6 They say that creates a perverse incentive to employ fewer qualifed workers.
7 People have a perverse desire to buy high, sell low, Fisher said.
8 Our perverse nod to the Mantle exhibited cruelty far beyond simple extinction.
9 I never saw so perverse and self-willed a child in my life.
10 All I know is that she was dealing with a perverse individual.
11 It sounded almost perverse to us until we received the formal notification.
12 It's that perverse optimism that Mark Ronson captures in Late Night Feelings.
13 This is, by the way, a perverse theory that Philip completely endorses.
14 Quite the opposite -she took a perverse enjoyment from that, too.
15 Sometimes they are deliberately perverse , and obscure... But it was no good.
16 I love this. That's perverse , and such a person surely doesn't exist.
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