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Definition of perversely in English: perverselyadverb pəˈvəːslipərˈvərsli 1In a way that shows a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable manner. the group perversely refused to tour until well past their peak the minister had acted perversely in failing to publish the report Example sentencesExamples - The third novel is hardly a novel at all, though the author perversely insisted on saying it was.
- They aren't immigrants who chose to come to the United States but perversely refuse to learn English.
- He marries the poor Lucy instead of the wealthy woman whom his father picked out for him—and whom the father himself perversely proceeds to marry.
- Why not just get rid of these misleading pro forma statements (which he perversely extols in his speech)?
- Maybe they defined themselves in opposition to pathology—or maybe they perversely embraced it.
- This perversely sets a misleading path for tonight's proceedings.
- For critics for whom 'reason' is always partisan and coercive, such an aspiration must seem perversely self-destructive.
- He perversely emphasized the differences rather than the similarities of timbre between instruments and even wrote an elaborate justification of this wrong-headedness.
- She had wanted them to choose a Shakespeare play or the Bible, but Sam had perversely chosen the dictionary.
- The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment.
2In a manner contrary to what is expected or accepted. as submodifier he was perversely proud of his parochial background sentence adverb perhaps perversely, it was his niceness that turned some people against him Example sentencesExamples - Spectacles of suffering are perversely part of our entertainment culture.
- Perversely, many chapters deal in detail with individual people who can only be described as extraordinary.
- In some instances, this was deeply entrenched and perversely affected newer influences.
- Increasing the supply of new nurses may turn out to be perversely ineffective if overall numbers grow and nurses perform even more non-nursing tasks.
- The study suggests that, perversely, implementing guidelines may lead to higher overall direct costs per patient.
- The repeated cycle of promised change, frenetic activity, and disappointment may perversely satisfy some in power.
- Even useless hacks may come, perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of their uselessness.
- Much of his writing is devoted to exposing how such oppositions were also perversely connected.
- She is wearing a plain black, ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
- Today, perversely, government is retreating from the limited areas where it has a natural responsibility.
Definition of perversely in US English: perverselyadverbpərˈvərslēpərˈvərsli 1In a way that shows a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable manner. the group perversely refused to tour until well past their peak the minister had acted perversely in failing to publish the report Example sentencesExamples - The third novel is hardly a novel at all, though the author perversely insisted on saying it was.
- They aren't immigrants who chose to come to the United States but perversely refuse to learn English.
- He perversely emphasized the differences rather than the similarities of timbre between instruments and even wrote an elaborate justification of this wrong-headedness.
- Why not just get rid of these misleading pro forma statements (which he perversely extols in his speech)?
- He marries the poor Lucy instead of the wealthy woman whom his father picked out for him—and whom the father himself perversely proceeds to marry.
- This perversely sets a misleading path for tonight's proceedings.
- The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment.
- She had wanted them to choose a Shakespeare play or the Bible, but Sam had perversely chosen the dictionary.
- Maybe they defined themselves in opposition to pathology—or maybe they perversely embraced it.
- For critics for whom 'reason' is always partisan and coercive, such an aspiration must seem perversely self-destructive.
2In a manner contrary to what is expected or accepted. as submodifier he was perversely proud of his parochial background sentence adverb perhaps perversely, it was his niceness that turned some people against him Example sentencesExamples - Perversely, many chapters deal in detail with individual people who can only be described as extraordinary.
- Even useless hacks may come, perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of their uselessness.
- In some instances, this was deeply entrenched and perversely affected newer influences.
- Much of his writing is devoted to exposing how such oppositions were also perversely connected.
- The repeated cycle of promised change, frenetic activity, and disappointment may perversely satisfy some in power.
- The study suggests that, perversely, implementing guidelines may lead to higher overall direct costs per patient.
- Increasing the supply of new nurses may turn out to be perversely ineffective if overall numbers grow and nurses perform even more non-nursing tasks.
- Today, perversely, government is retreating from the limited areas where it has a natural responsibility.
- She is wearing a plain black, ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
- Spectacles of suffering are perversely part of our entertainment culture.
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