perversity
Example Sentences
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“He spoke so fast that the amazing perversity of his arguments escaped undetected; what remains of them is a monument of ingenuity and insolence.”
“Dead Outlaw” evokes at moments the droll perversity of “Sweeney Todd,” the cold-hearted glee of “Assassins” and the Brechtian skewering of “Road Show” — Sondheim musicals that fly in the face of conventional musical theater wisdom.
From Los Angeles Times
“It is embarrassing that an athlete feels comfortable to commit such perversity as if all he achieved through sport will stop him from being punished.”
From Seattle Times
They moved on to other cases, but Ramos’ pervasiveness and perversity haunted the two.
From Los Angeles Times
The most astonishing aspect of the Oher story is that virtually no one who read the book, or saw the movie, chose to recognize this perversity.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
