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单词 perversity
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perversityper‧ver‧si‧ty /pəˈvɜːsəti $ pərˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] Examples
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  • 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.
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