perversity

The British Chamber of Commerce's president, Andy Haldane, told the BBC: "The perversity of what happened of the weekend was that those who got good deals, the allies, have been most disadvantaged."

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

“He spoke so fast that the amazing perversity of his arguments escaped undetected; what remains of them is a monument of ingenuity and insolence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

“It is embarrassing that an athlete feels comfortable to commit such perversity as if all he achieved through sport will stop him from being punished.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

We weren’t going to get out of here without a Scandinavian mystery, and this one has the benefit of a strong female-led cast and an emphasis on human frailty rather than gritty perversity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Most annoyingly, her objections were not mere perversity: at this stage the embarrassing fact came out that my recollection of the water content of Rosy’s DNA samples could not be right.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

They were not civilized intellectuals “milking on their own perversities and brutalities.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

Over the phone, Steve McQueen described her rigorousness as related, in part, to her interest in “the perversities of life and the perversities of the social situations that we find ourselves in.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2018

To an unusual extent, his rise and fall also spoke to the peculiar warps and perversities of that era.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 2, 2017

Doing so would help tackle one of the perversities of the illegal timber trade: An abundance of stolen timber depresses prices, slashes margins and can deter investing in better due diligence of their wood supplies.

From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2012

He is no longer scandalised by the excesses of ignorance, nor the perversities of selfishness.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake