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单词 perversity
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Definition of perversity in English:

perversity

nounPlural perversities pəˈvəːsɪtipərˈvərsədi
  • 1A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way; contrariness.

    they responded with typical perversity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many of their performances testify to organizational stupidity; a few testify only to the perversity of fate.
    • That is the way of human perversity, a perversity especially characteristic among intellectuals.
    • A troubled narrative of fear, laughter and perversity, the work questions where real life ends and art begins.
    • If some perversity sends you in quest of these, you should be looking in sections of old Christian books.
    • Yet I keep doing it, entirely for the perversity.
    • It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy.
    • We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
    • His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity.
    • I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity.
    • Libertarians are also naïve about the range and perversity of human desires they propose to unleash.
    • The real enemies in this film are the US Generals, who are displayed in all their war-mongering perversity.
    • Criminals are mutilated by surgery, magic or engineering in a manner that reflects their crime, or merely the perversity of the sentencing Magister.
    • There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity.
    • This is a perversity born of moral vanity.
    • The real perversity is the fact that democratically elected leaders now inhabit a different space from those who elected them.
    • Critics might think it indulgence in willful perversity.
    • The other seems to him only an unrighteous actuality or a case of human obstinacy or perversity.
    • If ever there were any doubt about the perversity of human nature, our present system of taxation is the proof!
    • All we urge in these matters is some sense of balance, some deference to the unregimented perversity of the human spirit.
    • The Commissioners ' error was not borne of dishonesty or perversity.
    Synonyms
    contrariness, perverseness, awkwardness, unreasonableness, difficultness, waywardness, capriciousness, wilfulness, refractoriness, stubbornness, obstinacy, obduracy, mulishness, pig-headedness
    informal cussedness
    British informal bloody-mindedness
    archaic frowardness
    unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicality, wrong-headedness, irregularity, inappropriateness
  • 2The quality of being contrary to accepted standards or practice; unreasonableness.

    the perversity of being able to carry a gun but not purchase a drink
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Aside from the perversity of putting the government in charge of teaching the next generation of voters, it distorts housing markets beyond recognition.
    • It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
    • In keeping with the cosmic perversity principle, it is the hardest cases that we find most interesting.
    • Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity.
    • This is not based on a perversity or a dislike or fear of women.
    • There is a gorgeous perversity in the idea of a woman forced to a blush by the reality of her own naked body.
    • The services of the Jews were thus secured for the city but safely kept at the periphery, the traditional receptacle of all evil and perversity.
    • And while most people are happy to keep a sensitive condition under wraps, some delight in the perversity of its exploitation.
    • The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity.
    • It was characteristic of his perversity that he left his name upon nothing that he made, with one exception.
    • Dr. Moreau attempts to create a higher being, but merely creates sad perversities, parodies of both human and animal.
    • Perversity — or would-be originality — alone could declare Jonson's tragedy preferable to his comedy.
    • But insane libertarians and promoters of polymorphous perversity have no answer.
    • They use perversity to create a false impression of profundity.
    • Or worse: lest we fall afoul of future generations of scholars who may claim not only error, but even perversity, in our work.
    • In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
    • Yet the perversities of slave society bent these otherwise commendable traits into heinous pathologies.
    • Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
    • When they fell into disuse I kept them out of perversity more than anything else, resisting change.
    • The Brasserie was of particular interest because of the perversity of its location: in the windowless basement of the premier glass-and-steel building of the modernist era.
  • 3The quality of being sexually perverted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Certainly, it is common xenophobic practice to attribute sexual perversity or illness to another nation or people.
    • I mean I've had no problems with showing a bit of skin, but this sort of fetish strikes me as a disturbing perversity never before attempted.
    • Acts which may in themselves be regarded as either perverse or bordering upon perversity may be considered permissible if they produce better reproductive sex between married couples.
    • The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
    • Overall, however, the sexual activity in the play seems to fall not into the categories of gay or straight but into a kind of polymorphous perversity.
    • It would be irresponsible to write his mobile-phone number on the wall of a public lavatory, along with an expression of enthusiasm for some barely legal perversity.
    • It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
    • In both movies, there's sexual perversity and violence - although here is where the crucial differences between these two great filmmakers start to show.

Rhymes

adversity, biodiversity, diversity, university

Definition of perversity in US English:

perversity

nounpərˈvərsədēpərˈvərsədi
  • 1A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way; contrariness.

    they responded with typical perversity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy.
    • I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity.
    • We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
    • All we urge in these matters is some sense of balance, some deference to the unregimented perversity of the human spirit.
    • If some perversity sends you in quest of these, you should be looking in sections of old Christian books.
    • The real perversity is the fact that democratically elected leaders now inhabit a different space from those who elected them.
    • Libertarians are also naïve about the range and perversity of human desires they propose to unleash.
    • The Commissioners ' error was not borne of dishonesty or perversity.
    • This is a perversity born of moral vanity.
    • Yet I keep doing it, entirely for the perversity.
    • There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity.
    • Critics might think it indulgence in willful perversity.
    • His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity.
    • A troubled narrative of fear, laughter and perversity, the work questions where real life ends and art begins.
    • Criminals are mutilated by surgery, magic or engineering in a manner that reflects their crime, or merely the perversity of the sentencing Magister.
    • The real enemies in this film are the US Generals, who are displayed in all their war-mongering perversity.
    • That is the way of human perversity, a perversity especially characteristic among intellectuals.
    • The other seems to him only an unrighteous actuality or a case of human obstinacy or perversity.
    • If ever there were any doubt about the perversity of human nature, our present system of taxation is the proof!
    • Many of their performances testify to organizational stupidity; a few testify only to the perversity of fate.
    Synonyms
    contrariness, perverseness, awkwardness, unreasonableness, difficultness, waywardness, capriciousness, wilfulness, refractoriness, stubbornness, obstinacy, obduracy, mulishness, pig-headedness
    unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicality, wrong-headedness, irregularity, inappropriateness
  • 2The quality of being contrary to accepted standards or practice.

    the perversity of being able to carry a gun but not purchase a drink
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
    • The Brasserie was of particular interest because of the perversity of its location: in the windowless basement of the premier glass-and-steel building of the modernist era.
    • The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity.
    • Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity.
    • The services of the Jews were thus secured for the city but safely kept at the periphery, the traditional receptacle of all evil and perversity.
    • When they fell into disuse I kept them out of perversity more than anything else, resisting change.
    • Aside from the perversity of putting the government in charge of teaching the next generation of voters, it distorts housing markets beyond recognition.
    • It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
    • But insane libertarians and promoters of polymorphous perversity have no answer.
    • And while most people are happy to keep a sensitive condition under wraps, some delight in the perversity of its exploitation.
    • Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
    • Or worse: lest we fall afoul of future generations of scholars who may claim not only error, but even perversity, in our work.
    • In keeping with the cosmic perversity principle, it is the hardest cases that we find most interesting.
    • Dr. Moreau attempts to create a higher being, but merely creates sad perversities, parodies of both human and animal.
    • It was characteristic of his perversity that he left his name upon nothing that he made, with one exception.
    • They use perversity to create a false impression of profundity.
    • Perversity — or would-be originality — alone could declare Jonson's tragedy preferable to his comedy.
    • Yet the perversities of slave society bent these otherwise commendable traits into heinous pathologies.
    • This is not based on a perversity or a dislike or fear of women.
    • There is a gorgeous perversity in the idea of a woman forced to a blush by the reality of her own naked body.
  • 3The quality of being sexually perverted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Acts which may in themselves be regarded as either perverse or bordering upon perversity may be considered permissible if they produce better reproductive sex between married couples.
    • Certainly, it is common xenophobic practice to attribute sexual perversity or illness to another nation or people.
    • In both movies, there's sexual perversity and violence - although here is where the crucial differences between these two great filmmakers start to show.
    • It would be irresponsible to write his mobile-phone number on the wall of a public lavatory, along with an expression of enthusiasm for some barely legal perversity.
    • The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
    • Overall, however, the sexual activity in the play seems to fall not into the categories of gay or straight but into a kind of polymorphous perversity.
    • I mean I've had no problems with showing a bit of skin, but this sort of fetish strikes me as a disturbing perversity never before attempted.
    • It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
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