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单词 perverse
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perverse

/pəˈvəːs /
adjective
1Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable: Kate’s perverse decision not to cooperate held good...
  • So his decision to show the way last night smacked of a perverse desire to prove something to himself and the world.
  • I always have this perverse but burning desire to be scared, and it's hard for me to achieve this goal simply because it's hard for me to get scared.
  • But I have this perverse desire to be shaved with a cut-throat razor - by an expert.

Synonyms

awkward, contrary, difficult, unreasonable, uncooperative, unhelpful, obstructive, disobliging, unaccommodating, troublesome, tiresome, annoying, vexatious, obstreperous, disobedient, unmanageable, uncontrollable, recalcitrant, refractory, rebellious;
wilful, headstrong, self-willed, capricious, wayward, cross-grained, stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, pertinacious, mulish, pig-headed, bull-headed, intractable, intransigent, inflexible;
Scottish thrawn
informal cussed
British informal bloody-minded, bolshie, stroppy
North American informal balky
archaic froward, contumacious
rare contrarious
2Contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice: in two general elections the outcome was quite perverse...
  • There is sometimes in us a perverse refusal to accept or to believe in good, a deep-seated, hardened refusal which belittles or despises good.
  • It is perverse because everyone accepts that regular exercise helps reduce the risk of heart attacks, high blood pressure, obesity and even depression.
  • Now, this standard has a certain perverse appeal, at least if we felt it would be universally followed.

Synonyms

illogical, irrational, unreasonable, contradictory, wrong, wrong-headed, incorrect, irregular, inappropriate, unorthodox
2.1 Law (Of a verdict) against the weight of evidence or the direction of the judge on a point of law.Where, however, a jury reaches a perverse verdict on the evidence, it is open to the Court of Appeal, to reverse that verdict....
  • It could only do so if satisfied that the decision was so perverse that the judge must have fallen into error.
  • It is a perverse verdict and it is a miscarriage of justice in relation to costs.
3Sexually perverted: an evil life dedicated to perverse pleasure films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption...
  • Donny saw the look of perverse pleasure on his neighbor's face as his mother bent over to pick up the keys.
  • Colapinto portrays Money as opportunistic, manipulative, condescending, violent, and even perverse.
  • But conservative groups have condemned multi-stall unisex toilets as unnecessary and perverse.

Synonyms

perverted, depraved, unnatural, abnormal, deviant, degenerate, immoral, warped, twisted, corrupt;
wicked, base, evil
informal kinky, sick, pervy, sicko

Derivatives

perverseness

/pəˈvəːsnəs / noun ...
  • This is partly because he is compassionate about the suffering of ordinary Europeans, but also exasperated by their masochism and perverseness.
  • What distinguishes his recent work is an almost maternal sympathy for the perverseness of the human animal - and the twists in its fate.
  • Such Delphic obscurity was not inspired by mere perverseness.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'turned away from what is right or good'): from Old French pervers(e), from Latin perversus 'turned about', from the verb pervertere (see pervert).

Rhymes

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