perverseness

How to use perverseness in a sentence

• And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of perverseness.

  Lords of the Housetops | Various

• perverseness in this error hath brought the church to the misery which it endureth.

  A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4) | Richard Baxter

• perverseness prompted Theodora to say, 'The baby at the lodge is twice the size.'

  Heartsease | Charlotte M. Yonge