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单词 perverse
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perverse

adjective
/pəˈvɜːs/
/pərˈvɜːrs/
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  1. showing a deliberate and determined desire to behave in a way that most people think is wrong, unacceptable or unreasonable
    • a perverse decision (= 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.
    • This kind of reasoning is deeply perverse.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • sound
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
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    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘turned away from what is right or good’): from Old French pervers(e), from Latin perversus ‘turned about’, from the verb pervertere, from per- ‘thoroughly, to ill effect’ + vertere ‘to turn’.
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