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perverse 音标拼音: [pɚv'ɚs] a. 乖张的,倔强的,错误的,堕落的,刚愎的,反常的 乖张的,倔强的,错误的,堕落的,刚愎的,反常的 perverse adj 1: marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict; " took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans" 2: resistant to guidance or discipline; " Mary Mary quite contrary"; " an obstinate child with a violent temper"; " a perverse mood"; " wayward behavior" [ synonym: { contrary}, { obstinate}, { perverse}, { wayward}] 3: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; " depraved criminals"; " a perverted sense of loyalty"; " the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [ synonym: { depraved}, { perverse}, { perverted}, { reprobate}] Perverse \ Per* verse"\ ( p[~ e] r* v[~ e] rs"), a. [ L. perversus turned the wrong way, not right, p. p. of pervertereto turn around, to overturn: cf. F. pervers. See { Pervert}.] 1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. [ 1913 Webster] The only righteous in a world perverse. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. [ 1913 Webster] To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Froward; untoward; wayward; stubborn; ungovernable; intractable; cross; petulant; vexatious. Usage: { Perverse}, { Froward}. One who is froward is capricious, and reluctant to obey. One who is perverse has a settled obstinacy of will, and likes or dislikes by the rule of contradiction to the will of others. [ 1913 Webster] 211 Moby Thesaurus words for " perverse": aberrant, abroad, adamant, adrift, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, askew, astray, at cross- purposes, at fault, awkward, awry, bad- tempered, balancing, balky, bearish, beside the mark, bilious, bitchy, breakaway, bulky, cankered, cantankerous, captious, churlish, clashing, clumsy, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting, contentious, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, corrupt, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross- grained, crosswise, crotchety, crusty, cumbersome, cussed, dead against, deceptive, defective, degenerate, delusive, depraved, deviant, deviational, deviative, difficult, disaccordant, disagreeable, discordant, discrepant, dissentient, dissident, distorted, enemy, errant, erring, erroneous, excitable, eyeball to eyeball, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, feisty, flawed, fractious, froward, grouchy, headstrong, heretical, heterodox, hostile, huffish, huffy, hulking, hulky, ill- tempered, illogical, illusory, impractical, improper, inconsistent, inconvenient, incorrect, inflexible, inimical, intractable, inverse, irascible, irregular, irritable, mean, miscreant, mulish, nefarious, negative, nonconformist, noncooperative, not right, not true, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, obverse, off, off the track, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, ornery, out, overthwart, peccant, peevish, pertinacious, perverted, petulant, pigheaded, ponderous, putrid, quarrelsome, reactionary, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, repugnant, resistant, restive, reverse, revolutionary, rival, rotten, self- contradictory, self- willed, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, squared off, stiff- necked, straying, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, ugly, unbending, uncooperative, unfactual, unfair, unfavorable, unfriendly, unhandy, unhealthy, unmanageable, unorthodox, unpropitious, unproved, unreasonable, untrue, unwieldy, unyielding, villainous, waspish, wayward, wide, wrong, wrongheaded
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