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单词 perversely
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perversely

/pəˈvəːsli /
adverb
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...
  • For critics for whom 'reason' is always partisan and coercive, such an aspiration must seem perversely self-destructive.
  • She had wanted them to choose a Shakespeare play or the Bible, but Sam had perversely chosen the dictionary.
  • He perversely emphasized the differences rather than the similarities of timbre between instruments and even wrote an elaborate justification of this wrong-headedness.
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...
  • 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.
  • Even useless hacks may come, perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of their uselessness.
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