perverseness

Atypically for a government document, the proclamation expresses a sense of penitence, acknowledging “national perverseness and disobedience,” even “sins.”

Yet, in a perfect example of Oscar perverseness, though “Arrival’s” success is impossible to imagine without star Amy Adams, she was not nominated in the best actress category.

I chose to leave the island vague so that readers could project their own stereotypes onto it, experience a bit of that perverseness for themselves.

It accordingly urged them to offer not only thanks but also “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.”

His own parents, in some mood of perverseness or resignation, had agreed to abide by a naming done to them by somebody who couldn’t have cared less.