Sentence for perverse | Use perverse in a sentence

Sentences for perverse. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use perverse in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for perverse.

• They had a perverse effect. (10)
• He chose to be perverse about her romance. (9)
• But there was the element of perverse desire. (12)
• He got very little out of the perverse instrument. (9)
• She felt a perverse pleasure at his embarrassment. (8)
• The Admiral, Sir Hovenden Walker, was both foolish and perverse. (19)
• On what perverse pretext, then, was it not some ancient town of Normandy? (9)
• In whatever obscure or perverse fashion, he had profited by his opportunities. (9)
• The perverse little devil, since she would not be taken with kindness, must even go with pricking. (2)
• This cataract of chastity gave me an utterly perverse notion of certain fundamental facts of human nature. (12)
• Nay, perverse as it seemed, she doubted whether she might not have felt less, had she been less attended to. (4)
• At any rate, he gave an exhibition of his worst qualities, and Summerhay derived perverse pleasure from that waywardness. (8)
• I tried to discover in her some alluring quality, some trace of lost or ruined beauty, some charm, however humble or even perverse. (12)
• In short, we diligently, conscientiously, and with a perverse satisfaction burned the candle of life at both ends and in the middle. (7)
• Penelope had caught up the habit of calling her father so from her mother, and she used his title in all her jocose and perverse moods. (9)

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Definition of perverse:

• perverse, per-vrs’, adj. turned aside: obstinate in the wrong: stubborn: vexatious. | adv. perverse’ly. | ns. perverse’ness, perver’sity, state or quality of being perverse: inclination to oppose: wickedness. | adj. perver’sive, tending to pervert. (0)

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