Synonym: contrariness, perverseness. Similar words: adversity, diversity, university, biodiversity, perverse, varsity, observer, version. Meaning: [pər'vɜrsətɪ /pə'vɜː-]
n. 1. deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline 2. deliberately deviating from what is good.


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1 She's marrying him out of sheer perversity.
2 Max refused the money out of sheer perversity.
3 He refused to attend out of sheer perversity.
4 My perversity had seemed to me amusing.
5 With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.
6 The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time.
7 Or words are preserved, perhaps through some occupational perversity, that mix totally inconsistent meanings.
8 Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.
9 But she was marrying Changez out of perversity,(www.Sentencedict.com) I was sure of it.
10 Strange bedfellows Adversity - or is it perversity? - certainly makes strange bedfellows.
11 It's also the logical result of the extreme perversity of a system whose sole aim is to increase market share.
12 Fetishism also derives from the early polymorphous perversity of infant sexuality.
13 It was aware of being a scene of perversity, it knew its own despair.
14 It would be wrong to continue out of perversity.
15 He can also bring stubbornness, eccentricity, rebellion,[sentencedict.com] and perversity.
16 Was perversity, that I longed to talk to him?
17 He did it out of slick perversity.
18 Inclination as well as perversity made the decision easy.
19 The best of us have a spice of perversity in us.
20 Freud had this wonderful phrase, "polymorphous perversity, " this pure desire for pleasure.
21 The perversity of the weather did some damage to the crops.
22 Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
23 Greatness seems to demand the sort of stubborn perversity that is a predominantly male quality.
24 He was vilified by the press as a monster of perversity.
25 The author of the book seems to be obsessed with sexual perversity and death.
26 Clough has always marched to a different tune, but this time his perversity may finally be his undoing.
27 But these well-meant attempts were bound to fail from the sheer perversity of the enterprise.
28 I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity.
29 This is very strange. It is strange to the point of perversity.
30 This about not loving her, physically, bodily, was a mere perversity on his part.
More similar words: adversity, diversity, university, biodiversity, perverse, varsity, observer, version, aversion, ever since, oversight, inversion, diversion, subversive, conversion, controversial, serve, nerve, nerves, swerve, serve as, fervent, observe, deserve, reserve, reserved, observed, preserve, persist, Persian.