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perversely

adverb as in unnaturally

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Example Sentences

The breakup, sending Douglass to the New York abolitionists, more driven to political engagement than the anti-government Bostonian branch, perversely led to triumph—for the abolitionist and the movement.

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He’s also behind the most perversely delightful Christmas movie.

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In some circumstances it can be rational to be not just ignorant but powerless, and, most perversely of all, irrational.

It could be just as weirdly unpredictable as the previous example of someone perversely guessing the code-crashing number.

Ending the filibuster, perversely enough, makes both fears more real.

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Perversely, the whole sad tale, and the publication of Zen Predator itself, might be good for American Buddhism.

Perversely, however, the idea has grown up that we must address the fiscal problem first.

Perversely, some businesses need to worry about the opposite problem, too.

Perversely I continue to be the subject of contradictory and conflicting moods impossible to understand and difficult to describe.

Perversely, since he seemed bent on rejecting my reward, I became anxious to press it upon him.

Perversely it made August think of Emmy, his wife, and acute dread touched him at the mockery of her wasting despair.

Perversely enough, whilst Ora's husband was a commonplace though intelligent attorney, Ora was married to a Montana mine-owner.

Perversely enough, they had been drawn together by the very attraction of dissimilarity.

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

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