perversity

Examples

• All

• It's a mark of the perversity of the age that it takes the Politburo to save global capitalism.

  Academic text (2011)

• It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.

  A Dangerous Method (2011)

• Even with so much to do, time passes with the perversity I remember from waiting for Christmas as a child.

  Fiction book (1990)

• But, God, the older I get the more I'm aware of the of the perversity of the human mind.

  Conversations with Other Women (2006)

• In order to go further, we need to specify the nature and ground of this human perversity.

  Academic text (2000)

• "And what a distortion in your judgment, "what a perversity in your ideas..."

  Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

• But he sees that her determination to keep it secret is a perversity she treasures.

  Fiction book (2001)

• And it was a measure of the world's perversity, the inherent unfairness of things, that this would always be so.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I have to start by saying that there's some kind of elf of perversity which seems to guide my writing and speaking.

  Harvard University

• His stubborn perversity led him to ignore all advice from his friends.

Synonyms

W

wrongfulness

vsperversity

• Formal

1 7.4

Something that is not right according to law or morals

stresses purposeful stubborn wrongdoing rather than general legal or moral breach

P

perverseness

vsperversity

1 8.4

Doing things on purpose that are wrong or against what others expect

is the same idea but often presented as the more common variant

C

contrariness

vsperversity

1 7.7

A habit where someone does the opposite of what others want on purpose

focuses more on wrong or unreasonable acts rather than mere opposition

U

unconscionability

vsperversity

• Formal

1 9.9

Extreme unfairness in a contract or action that is morally wrong

refers to willful unreasonable behavior, not only extreme unfairness in law

Antonyms

C

conformity

24 4.8

A state of behaving and thinking like most people or like rules say

R

reasonableness

8 3.7

A quality of being fair, sensible, and showing good judgment

How Contrary

perversity

9 8.6

contrariness

1 7.7

stubbornness

21 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology