perversity

Niskanen policy director Samuel Hammond calls Manchin’s position “performative austerity,” and points to a deep perversity.

"Perversity is the only thing that makes this rotten life worth living," retorted Bakkus.

She answered, 'The shape of an Ass that will carry two on its back, thou Perversity!'

Perversity haunts the garden, and the dock always grows as near as possible to some plant that you value.

Perversity prompted her answer, but at once she remembered Crewe, and turned away in annoyance.

Perversity, inconsistency—but it was her nature, and she could not overcome it.