perversity

  • 11perversity — noun 1. deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline • Syn: ↑contrariness, ↑perverseness • Derivationally related forms: ↑perverse (for: ↑perverseness), ↑perverse, ↑ …

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  • 12perversity — noun see perverse …

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  • 13perversity — /peuhr verr si tee/, n., pl. perversities for 2. 1. the state or quality of being perverse. 2. an instance of this. [1520 30; < L perversitas. See PERVERSE, ITY] * * * …

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  • 14perversity — noun a) The quality of being perverse. b) A perverse act …

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  • 15perversity — Synonyms and related words: antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety …

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  • 16perversity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. obstinacy, obduracy, perverseness, mulishness, cussedness (sl.); waywardness, unconformity; contumacy, wickedness. See irascibility. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being&#8230; …

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  • 17perversity — per ver·si·ty || pÉ™r vÉœrsÉ™tɪ /pÉ™ vɜː n. aberrancy, deviancy; distortedness, abnormality; stubbornness, obstinacy …

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  • 18perversity — n. See perverseness …

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  • 19perversity — n 1. contrariness, contradictoriness, contradictiousness, Archaic. contrariousness, contrariety, contumaciousness, contumacity, contumacy, frowardness, seditiousness, refractoriness, querulousness; waywardness, disobedience, intransigence,&#8230; …

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  • 20perversity — per·ver·si·ty …

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