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perverseness

/per-vurs/US // pərˈvɜrs //UK // (pəˈvɜːs) //

变态,淫秽性,淫乱,淫荡

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
    • : characterized by or proceeding from such a determination or disposition: a perverse mood.
    • : wayward or cantankerous.
    • : persistent or obstinate in what is wrong.
    • : turned away from or rejecting what is right, good, or proper; wicked or corrupt.

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Examples

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

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

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