perverse
Example Sentences
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You could liken it to Poe's "Imp of the Perverse," doing something for the very reason you know you should not.
From Salon • May 6, 2023
Perverse invention and rational coherence lock into each other at weird, compelling angles in his work.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2019
There are, at this particular point in time, only five tribes from which to pick: the Perverse Prepster, the Arty Ninja, the Dedicated Follower of Satin, the Statham, and the Schlub.
From Slate • May 23, 2016
Perverse, obstinate, contrary, cross-grained, intractable, not amenable, in a dour sullen mood.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2014
—Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious Things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or Fear conceiv'd, Gorgon's, and Hydra's, and Chimera's dire.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Vocabulary lists containing perverse
Romeo and Juliet
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