| 词汇 | perversity |
| 释义 | perversityWord family adverbperverselynounperversenessperversionperversityperverteradjectiveperversivepervertedperversepervertibleverbpervert per·ver·si·ty /pəˈvɜːsəti $ pərˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountableU] STRANGEthe quality of being perverse 任性，执拗，不合情理 Max refused the money out of sheer perversity. 马克斯拒收那些钱纯粹是出于任性。 Examples from the Corpus perversity• With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.• The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time.• My perversity had seemed to me amusing.• Or words are preserved, perhaps through some occupational perversity, that mix totally inconsistent meanings.• But she was marrying Changez out of perversity, I was sure of it.• It was aware of being a scene of perversity, it knew its own despair.• I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity.• Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him. |
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