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Definition of perversity in English: perversitynounPlural perversities pəˈvəːsɪtipərˈvərsədi 1A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way; contrariness. they responded with typical perversity Example sentencesExamples - Many of their performances testify to organizational stupidity; a few testify only to the perversity of fate.
- That is the way of human perversity, a perversity especially characteristic among intellectuals.
- A troubled narrative of fear, laughter and perversity, the work questions where real life ends and art begins.
- If some perversity sends you in quest of these, you should be looking in sections of old Christian books.
- Yet I keep doing it, entirely for the perversity.
- It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy.
- We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
- His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity.
- I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity.
- Libertarians are also naïve about the range and perversity of human desires they propose to unleash.
- The real enemies in this film are the US Generals, who are displayed in all their war-mongering perversity.
- Criminals are mutilated by surgery, magic or engineering in a manner that reflects their crime, or merely the perversity of the sentencing Magister.
- There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity.
- This is a perversity born of moral vanity.
- The real perversity is the fact that democratically elected leaders now inhabit a different space from those who elected them.
- Critics might think it indulgence in willful perversity.
- The other seems to him only an unrighteous actuality or a case of human obstinacy or perversity.
- If ever there were any doubt about the perversity of human nature, our present system of taxation is the proof!
- All we urge in these matters is some sense of balance, some deference to the unregimented perversity of the human spirit.
- The Commissioners ' error was not borne of dishonesty or perversity.
Synonyms contrariness, perverseness, awkwardness, unreasonableness, difficultness, waywardness, capriciousness, wilfulness, refractoriness, stubbornness, obstinacy, obduracy, mulishness, pig-headedness informal cussedness British informal bloody-mindedness archaic frowardness unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicality, wrong-headedness, irregularity, inappropriateness 2The quality of being contrary to accepted standards or practice; unreasonableness. the perversity of being able to carry a gun but not purchase a drink Example sentencesExamples - Aside from the perversity of putting the government in charge of teaching the next generation of voters, it distorts housing markets beyond recognition.
- It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
- In keeping with the cosmic perversity principle, it is the hardest cases that we find most interesting.
- Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity.
- This is not based on a perversity or a dislike or fear of women.
- There is a gorgeous perversity in the idea of a woman forced to a blush by the reality of her own naked body.
- The services of the Jews were thus secured for the city but safely kept at the periphery, the traditional receptacle of all evil and perversity.
- And while most people are happy to keep a sensitive condition under wraps, some delight in the perversity of its exploitation.
- The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity.
- It was characteristic of his perversity that he left his name upon nothing that he made, with one exception.
- Dr. Moreau attempts to create a higher being, but merely creates sad perversities, parodies of both human and animal.
- Perversity — or would-be originality — alone could declare Jonson's tragedy preferable to his comedy.
- But insane libertarians and promoters of polymorphous perversity have no answer.
- They use perversity to create a false impression of profundity.
- Or worse: lest we fall afoul of future generations of scholars who may claim not only error, but even perversity, in our work.
- In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
- Yet the perversities of slave society bent these otherwise commendable traits into heinous pathologies.
- Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
- When they fell into disuse I kept them out of perversity more than anything else, resisting change.
- The Brasserie was of particular interest because of the perversity of its location: in the windowless basement of the premier glass-and-steel building of the modernist era.
3The quality of being sexually perverted. Example sentencesExamples - Certainly, it is common xenophobic practice to attribute sexual perversity or illness to another nation or people.
- I mean I've had no problems with showing a bit of skin, but this sort of fetish strikes me as a disturbing perversity never before attempted.
- Acts which may in themselves be regarded as either perverse or bordering upon perversity may be considered permissible if they produce better reproductive sex between married couples.
- The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
- Overall, however, the sexual activity in the play seems to fall not into the categories of gay or straight but into a kind of polymorphous perversity.
- It would be irresponsible to write his mobile-phone number on the wall of a public lavatory, along with an expression of enthusiasm for some barely legal perversity.
- It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
- In both movies, there's sexual perversity and violence - although here is where the crucial differences between these two great filmmakers start to show.
Rhymesadversity, biodiversity, diversity, university Definition of perversity in US English: perversitynounpərˈvərsədēpərˈvərsədi 1A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way; contrariness. they responded with typical perversity Example sentencesExamples - It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy.
- I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity.
- We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
- All we urge in these matters is some sense of balance, some deference to the unregimented perversity of the human spirit.
- If some perversity sends you in quest of these, you should be looking in sections of old Christian books.
- The real perversity is the fact that democratically elected leaders now inhabit a different space from those who elected them.
- Libertarians are also naïve about the range and perversity of human desires they propose to unleash.
- The Commissioners ' error was not borne of dishonesty or perversity.
- This is a perversity born of moral vanity.
- Yet I keep doing it, entirely for the perversity.
- There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity.
- Critics might think it indulgence in willful perversity.
- His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity.
- A troubled narrative of fear, laughter and perversity, the work questions where real life ends and art begins.
- Criminals are mutilated by surgery, magic or engineering in a manner that reflects their crime, or merely the perversity of the sentencing Magister.
- The real enemies in this film are the US Generals, who are displayed in all their war-mongering perversity.
- That is the way of human perversity, a perversity especially characteristic among intellectuals.
- The other seems to him only an unrighteous actuality or a case of human obstinacy or perversity.
- If ever there were any doubt about the perversity of human nature, our present system of taxation is the proof!
- Many of their performances testify to organizational stupidity; a few testify only to the perversity of fate.
Synonyms contrariness, perverseness, awkwardness, unreasonableness, difficultness, waywardness, capriciousness, wilfulness, refractoriness, stubbornness, obstinacy, obduracy, mulishness, pig-headedness unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicality, wrong-headedness, irregularity, inappropriateness 2The quality of being contrary to accepted standards or practice. the perversity of being able to carry a gun but not purchase a drink Example sentencesExamples - In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
- The Brasserie was of particular interest because of the perversity of its location: in the windowless basement of the premier glass-and-steel building of the modernist era.
- The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity.
- Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity.
- The services of the Jews were thus secured for the city but safely kept at the periphery, the traditional receptacle of all evil and perversity.
- When they fell into disuse I kept them out of perversity more than anything else, resisting change.
- Aside from the perversity of putting the government in charge of teaching the next generation of voters, it distorts housing markets beyond recognition.
- It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
- But insane libertarians and promoters of polymorphous perversity have no answer.
- And while most people are happy to keep a sensitive condition under wraps, some delight in the perversity of its exploitation.
- Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
- Or worse: lest we fall afoul of future generations of scholars who may claim not only error, but even perversity, in our work.
- In keeping with the cosmic perversity principle, it is the hardest cases that we find most interesting.
- Dr. Moreau attempts to create a higher being, but merely creates sad perversities, parodies of both human and animal.
- It was characteristic of his perversity that he left his name upon nothing that he made, with one exception.
- They use perversity to create a false impression of profundity.
- Perversity — or would-be originality — alone could declare Jonson's tragedy preferable to his comedy.
- Yet the perversities of slave society bent these otherwise commendable traits into heinous pathologies.
- This is not based on a perversity or a dislike or fear of women.
- There is a gorgeous perversity in the idea of a woman forced to a blush by the reality of her own naked body.
3The quality of being sexually perverted. Example sentencesExamples - Acts which may in themselves be regarded as either perverse or bordering upon perversity may be considered permissible if they produce better reproductive sex between married couples.
- Certainly, it is common xenophobic practice to attribute sexual perversity or illness to another nation or people.
- In both movies, there's sexual perversity and violence - although here is where the crucial differences between these two great filmmakers start to show.
- It would be irresponsible to write his mobile-phone number on the wall of a public lavatory, along with an expression of enthusiasm for some barely legal perversity.
- The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
- Overall, however, the sexual activity in the play seems to fall not into the categories of gay or straight but into a kind of polymorphous perversity.
- I mean I've had no problems with showing a bit of skin, but this sort of fetish strikes me as a disturbing perversity never before attempted.
- It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
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