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English noun: perverseness | |||
| 1. | perverseness (attribute) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | ||
| Synonyms | contrariness, perversity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cussedness, orneriness | ||
| 2. | perverseness (attribute) deliberately deviating from what is good | ||
| Samples | There will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism. | ||
| Synonyms | perversity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | evil, evilness | ||
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