perverse
/pɚˈvɝs/ adjective C2- Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
- Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
- Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
- Wayward; vexing; contrary.
- Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
Comparative perverser · Superlative perversest
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When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: “O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.”
Wickham’s society was of material service in dispelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn family.
“Certainly, I might have lived happily amongst those good people, who adored me, but my perverse disposition prevailed over the virtues which my adopted mother endeavored to instil into my heart.
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