释义 |
perversityper‧ver‧si‧ty /pəˈvɜːsəti $ pərˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] - But she was marrying Changez out of perversity, I was sure of it.
- I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity.
- It was aware of being a scene of perversity, it knew its own despair.
- My perversity had seemed to me amusing.
- Or words are preserved, perhaps through some occupational perversity, that mix totally inconsistent meanings.
- Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.
- The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time.
- With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.
the quality of being perverse: Max refused the money out of sheer perversity. |