Perverse
31perverse and obstinate — In Sheridan’s The School for Scandal Sir Peter Teazle says to a young girl: ‘Go, perverse and obstinate.’ He adds: ‘but take care, madam.’ An expression such as this when used vocatively is normally followed by a head word, such as ‘girl’,… …
32perverse — adjective a) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. b) Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary …
33perverse — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abroad, adamant, adrift, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, askew, astray, at cross purposes,… …
34perverse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. contrary, stubborn, obstinate, self willed; ungovernable, wayward; cross, petulant. See obstinacy, wrong. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Obstinate] Syn. headstrong, obdurate, self willed, wrongheaded;… …
35perverse — per·verse || pÉ™r vÉœrs /pÉ™ vÉœËs adj. deviant, aberrant; distorted, perverted, falsified …
36perverse — preserve …
37perverse — adjective 1》 showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave unacceptably. ↘sexually perverted. 2》 contrary to that which is accepted or expected. ↘Law (of a verdict) against the weight of evidence or the direction of the judge.… …
38perverse — a. 1. Distorted (from the right), bad, perverted. 2. Obstinate, stubborn, wilful, dogged, mulish, untrastable, unyielding, headstrong, pertinacious, wayward, ungovernable, froward, pervicacious. 3. Cross, petulant, peevish, waspish, captious,… …
39perverse — adj 1. contrary, contradictory, Archaic. contrarious, froward, contumacious, cross grained, seditious, refractory, querulous; wayward, disobedient, intransigent, wrong headed; troublesome, vexatious, difficult; wild, unruly, unmanageable,… …
40perverse — per·verse …
