Synonym: contrary, corrupt, difficult, erroneous, false, incorrect, obstinate, stubborn, untrue, wicked, willful, wrong. Antonym: docile. Similar words: observer, verse, oversee, inverse, reverse, adverse, diverse, converse. Meaning: [pər'vɜrs /pə'vɜːs] adj. 1. marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict 2. resistant to guidance or discipline 3. marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good.
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31. They enjoyed sophisticated pleasures, less constrained than elsewhere, which seemed to purists appallingly perverse.
32. After what we've said about visual support, it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture.
33. I take a certain perverse pleasure in offering one of these a-topical tone poems, unsolicited and out of date.
34. Louise could be perverse, often for reasons unclear to him.
35. Eliot's demand for difficulty, in retrospect, by now looks perverse as well as obscure.
36. It was a perverse jealousy I felt, envying him sensations no one should have to suffer.
37. Nevertheless, this raises questions about resourcing, the possibility of duplication of services and of perverse incentives.
38. In my own perverse way, I approved of this single paradox in her newly forming, but not reforming, character.
39. There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives, as we have seen in Chapter 3.
40. What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions?
41. That might yield a perverse bliss compared with his present adversity.
42. Much of the problem of the underclass, we continue to believe, arises from perverse incentives rooted in misguided paternalism.
43. Still, it looms as a perverse temptation, and Blue must struggle with himself for some time before fighting it off.
44. His characters seem at first sight useless or even perverse.
45. Was he really so psychologically weakened that public humiliation would become a sort of perverse fame?
46. The upshot is that the conglomerates and the government have a perverse incentive to allow the system to continue to fester.
47. Each party tended to see its own central ideal and to look at the others concerned as a perverse distraction from it.
48. Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.
49. People in Minneapolis take a perverse pride in how cold their winters are.
50. For the courts to demand that parents must keep alive severely deformed children against their will is perverse and unkind.
51. The process by which larger segments get buried this way seems to be a kind of perverse shorthand.
52. Accordingly(sentencedict.com), the initial reaction of the equity markets was utterly perverse.
53. Our desires to eat have been repressed, and so they surface in extreme and perverse ways.
54. Eduardo Arroyo,[www.Sentencedict.com] who confuses the vulgarity of Madrid's status as cultural capital with the praiseworthiness of a perverse act.
55. It would seem positively perverse to savour moments like that and feel them as they are.
56. And his hair shirt of guilt brought its perverse comfort again.
57. These perverse effects are compounded by the heavy political price that has to be paid: the abandonment of monetary sovereignty.
58. We also know that they may react in a slightly perverse way to our advertising.
59. Dostoevsky wanted to stifle the thought that he was riding on the back of Nechacv's perverse glamour.
60. But he didn't know that, and a perverse sense of devilry urged her to lead him on.
More similar words: observer, verse, oversee, inverse, reverse, adverse, diverse, converse, traverse, universe, persevere, perseverance, intersperse, serve, nerve, swerve, reserve, observe, fervent, deserve, serve as, preserve, observed, reserved, intervene, optic nerve, per se, intervening, terse, effervescent.