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She took perverse satisfaction in spoiling his plans.perverse = considered improper
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Discovering him, seeing his surprise, and presented at once with choices, Winnie's mind perversely went blank. (source)perversely = in a manner that is the opposite of what is desired
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Still there was something perverse in his searching. Like exhausting the least likely places first when looking for something lost. (source)perverse = a deviation from what is considered reasonable or good
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Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent. (source)perverted = a deviation from what is reasonable, proper, or good
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I knew she was only doing it for her sick, perverted pleasure. (source)perverted = deviated from what is considered reasonable, proper, or good
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And since everyone at school already had a perverted image of me after Justin's little number, I was the perfect choice, wasn't I? (source)perverted = unpleasantly abnormal (deviation from what is considered reasonable, proper, or good)
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In this perverse world, that would be a relief.† (source)
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I swear it wasn't perverted though.† (source)perverted = deviated from what is considered reasonable, proper, or good
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He thought later that the world, in its unfailing perversity, would probably construe those things which he did next as acts of heroism.† (source)
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For a moment I was perversely glad I was hidden from myself.† (source)
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But caution can deteriorate into obstinacy, perverseness, or disingenuity.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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It seems like a return to the days of the priests of Baal, so vulgar and disgusting do these perversities appear.'† (source)
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Then would the noble or right honourable Barnacle perceive, sir, from this little document, which he thought might carry conviction even to the perversest mind (Derisive laughter and cheering from the Barnacle fry), that within the short compass of the last financial half-year, this much-maligned Department (Cheers) had written and received fifteen thousand letters (Loud cheers), had written twenty-four thousand minutes (Louder cheers), and thirty-two thousand five hundred and seventeen memoranda (Vehement cheering).† (source)
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This has a perverse effect on those prisoners who work for the SS, particularly the Sonderkommando.† (source)
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A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality.† (source)
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What perversity caused the book to open at my Wanna's favorite passage?† (source)
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