Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.
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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