perversely
Example Sentences
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Aggrievement and isolation, perversely enough, became the glue that holds the community together.
From Salon
Mr. Obama had the chance to isolate Iran, the Middle East’s other major exporter of terror, and instead, perversely, strengthened it.
So maybe it’s perversely apt that the Broadway revival of the musical “Chess” should feel eye-glazingly interminable, despite a cast of thrillingly good singers in top form.
Most perversely, several U.N. bodies have tried to steer the International Criminal Court, touted inaccurately by its advocates as descending from the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal, to focus on Israel.
The 60-year-old said he felt "perversely lucky" since the parents involved had passed away, sparing him "difficult conversations".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
