10 Verbs to Use for the Word perversity

Here again the pedants under consideration exhibit the illogical perversity that makes the brain reel.

"I've heard him curse the perversity of little things, and rave at what he called the 'malice of the north wind.'

The child who thus early displayed the perversity of his humour by so inopportune an appearance was Laurence Sterne.

"He repaired," says a contemporary chronicler, "to the castle of Vertfeuil (or Verfeil, in the district of Toulouse), where flourished at that time the scions of a numerous nobility and of a multitude of people, thinking that, if he could extinguish heretical perversity in this place where it was so very much spread, it would be easy for him to make head against it elsewhere.

"Wretched woman, to what monstrous perversity have you fallen!

Like her type and prototype, we find that she has to suffer those mortifications which a good wife cannot but experience on witnessing the scorn, disdain, and enmity which follow the perversity of a wayward husband.

But another race of men seems to have sprung up, in whom the futile enthusiasm of the collector predominates, who substitute archaeologic perversity for aesthetic scholarship, and the worthless profusion of the curiosity-shop for the sifted exclusiveness of the cabinet of Art.

Father would, no doubt, think it my natural perversity, or our bad luck; but I don't believe in luck.

With haughty mein, the victor of a nation of slaves, he ascended the Capitol, gave thanks to the gods, and went home to betray henceforth the full perversity of a nature which the reverence for his mother, such as it was, had hitherto in part restrained.

A more valid accusation touches the many verbal perversities, in which a poet has less right than another to indulge.

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  perversity