All 3 Uses of
perverse
in
Notes from the Underground
- So, I suppose, this obstinacy and perversity were pleasanter to them than any advantage....Advantage!†
Chpt 1.7 *
- And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point.†
Chpt 1.8
- Why are we perverse and ask for something else?†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
not what is expected, or considered proper
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired