Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.
1 Passages in his letters are almost comical in their perversity of misjudgment.
2 It was weakness; it was this disease of perversity overcoming his will.
3 That was in our list, but the perversity of the time-table forbade.
4 Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance.
5 With even more perversity , one might judge Paley's observation as undoubtedly correct.
6 She wondered if that were anything more meaningful than just natural perversity .
7 The choicest of them will furnish us examples of a strange perversity .
8 Despite this perversity , there was an integrity to Alan that commanded respect.
9 With the usual perversity of your sex you pursue a pig policy.
10 The matter begins and ends with the boy's own perversity and folly.
11 As usual, when perversity defends, the pleading reached the judge too late.
12 Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
13 And what seemed to him her stubborn perversity drove him to despair.
14 Under her sauciest rattle of fun or perversity lurked some subtle meaning.
15 He besought her not to ruin her parent by such monstrous perversity .
16 But-perhaps it was from perversity - her warning only served to strengthen his determination.
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