单词	perversely
释义	perverseper‧verse /pəˈvɜːs $ pərˈvɜːrs/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINperverse Origin: 1300-1400 Latin past participle of pervertere; ➔ PERVERT1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a perverse policy People in Minneapolis take a perverse pride in how cold their winters are. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Accordingly, the initial reaction of the equity markets was utterly perverse. But he didn't know that, and a perverse sense of devilry urged her to lead him on. His characters seem at first sight useless or even perverse. In a perverse way, the same is now true of modern capitalism. Louise could be perverse, often for reasons unclear to him. Sadistic people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this. The whole idea is too perverse. These perverse effects are compounded by the heavy political price that has to be paid: the abandonment of monetary sovereignty. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► perverse pleasure (=unreasonable, surprising, or bad)· Some people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► incentive · There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives, as we have seen in Chapter 3.· Much of the problem of the underclass, we continue to believe, arises from perverse incentives rooted in misguided paternalism.· The upshot is that the conglomerates and the government have a perverse incentive to allow the system to continue to fester.· Nevertheless, this raises questions about resourcing, the possibility of duplication of services and of perverse incentives.· Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.· What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions? ► way · In a perverse way, the same is now true of modern capitalism.· Our desires to eat have been repressed, and so they surface in extreme and perverse ways.· We also know that they may react in a slightly perverse way to our advertising.· In my own perverse way, I approved of this single paradox in her newly forming, but not reforming, character.· Faced with such apparently perverse ways of thinking it is easy to conclude that they can not possibly reason as we reason. behaving in an unreasonable way, especially by deliberately doing the opposite of what people want you to do → bizarre:  He gets perverse satisfaction from embarrassing people.—perversely adverb:  Perversely, she was irritated by his kindness.
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