Definition of Perverse

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Definition of Perverse
	Perverse Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. Related Definitions: Aside, Away, Contrary, Erring, From, Hence, In, Intractable, Obstinate, Perverted, Right, Specifically, Stubborn, The, Turned, Vexing, Wayward, Wicked, Wrong

Perverse Quotations

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
Barney Frank

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Diane Arbus

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Gustave Flaubert

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
Studs Terkel

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann

The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.
Joni Mitchell

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
Hedy Lamarr

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson

Perverse Translations

perverse in Dutch is verdorven, pervers
perverse in German is verkehrt, pervers
perverse in Latin is pravus, improbus
perverse in Spanish is perverso

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