showing deliberate determination to behave in a way that most people think is wrong, unacceptable or unreasonable:
a perverse decision / judgement / result (= one that most people do not expect and think is wrong) * She finds a perverse pleasure in upsetting her parents. * Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse? * For some perverse reason he is refusing to see a doctor. * It would be perverse to quit now that we're almost finished.
perversely adverb:
She seemed perversely proud of her criminal record. * He couldn't bear to be near her, yet, perversely, he still found himself looking out for her.
perversity noun [U]:
He refused to attend out of sheer perversity.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for perverse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is perverse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, perverse is tagged as adjective.
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