单词 | perversity |
释义 | perversity (once / 3419 pages) n WORD FAMILY perversity: perversities+/perverse: perversely, perverseness, perversest, perversity/perverseness: perversenesses USAGE EXAMPLESThe Journal eventually published a hundred and twenty-nine articles, the first of which acknowledged the perversity of the project: The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The New York Times primly notes that the academy is famous for “its at times almost willful perversity in picking winners.” Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) I try to draw from all this wisdom as I raise a boy in this thicket of hubris and perversity. Los Angeles Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1n deliberately deviating from what is good there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism Syn|Hyper perverseness evil, evilness the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice 2n deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline Syn|Hypo|Hyper contrariness, perverseness cussedness, orneriness meanspirited disagreeable contrariness fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline |
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