All 3 Uses
perverse
in
A Room With A View
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- Beethoven is so usually simple and direct in his appeal that it is sheer perversity to choose a thing like that, which, if anything, disturbs.†
Chpt 3 *
- Of course, the wish was due to nerves, which love to play such perverse tricks upon us.†
Chpt 14
- She remembered that in all his perversities he had never spoken against affection.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(perverse) not what is expected, or considered proper
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)