perversity

Example Sentences

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That he assigns this psychologically straining task to Emmanuèle — the one he had the most up-and-down relationship with — is viewed by the sisters as an act of either “love or perversity.”

From Los Angeles Times

They were not civilized intellectuals “milking on their own perversities and brutalities.”

From Seattle Times

Cozy mysteries give you the benefits of more uncomfortable mysteries — the suspense, the puzzles — without the gore, the sensationalism, the foregrounded perversity.

From Los Angeles Times

They, after all, produced living and abiding evidence of enslavement’s perversity.

From Washington Post

Newton attributes the switch to “irony, perversity, projection and a desire to shield the innocent.”

From New York Times