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perversely

adverb as in unnaturally

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So maybe it’s perversely apt that the Broadway revival of the musical “Chess” should feel eye-glazingly interminable, despite a cast of thrillingly good singers in top form.

Most perversely, several U.N. bodies have tried to steer the International Criminal Court, touted inaccurately by its advocates as descending from the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal, to focus on Israel.

The 60-year-old said he felt "perversely lucky" since the parents involved had passed away, sparing him "difficult conversations".

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They were followed perversely by torrential rains in 1861, which drowned hundreds of head.

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He said that, perversely, finding the money was the easy part.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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