All 3 Uses of
perverse
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- He was so unlike what he had ever shown himself to be, and it was so sad to think how much he had thrown away, and how much he every day kept down and perverted, that Lucie Manette wept mournfully for him as he stood looking back at her.†
Chpt 2.13 *
- …and it was much too much the way of native British orthodoxy, to talk of this terrible Revolution as if it were the only harvest ever known under the skies that had not been sown—as if nothing had ever been done, or omitted to be done, that had led to it—as if observers of the wretched millions in France, and of the misused and perverted resources that should have made them prosperous, had not seen it inevitably coming, years before, and had not in plain words recorded what they saw.†
Chpt 2.24
- Such grace as was visible in it, made it the uglier, showing how warped and perverted all things good by nature were become.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(perverse) not what is expected, or considered proper
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired