perverseadjective
uk/pəˈvɜːs/us/pɚˈvɝːs/disapprovingstrange and not what most people would expect or enjoy:
Jack was being perverse and refusing to agree with anything we said.
She took a perverse pleasure in hearing that her sister was getting divorced.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- strange
- suss
- whacky
- whimsical
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perversely
adverb uk/pəˈvɜːs.li/us/pɚˈvɝːs.li/
The best way to understand this book is to start, perversely, at the end.
perversity
noun [ C or U ] uk/pəˈvɜː.sə.ti/us/pɚˈvɝː.sə.t̬i/
The author of the book seems to be obsessed with sexual perversity.