perversely

How To Use perversely In A Sentence

• Why not just get rid of these misleading pro forma statements (which he perversely extols in his speech)?
• This perversely sets a misleading path for tonight's proceedings.
• It was a room designed aspiringly for a brandy and a fire, a failed room, perversely furnished, and she drank tea and tried to read a book. THE BODY ARTIST
• Perversely, such words of steel were meant to calm the American people, not whip them into a vengeful fervour.
• Paul Verhoeven has a track record of movies so offensive they are perversely beguiling.
• She was perversely pleased to be causing trouble.
• Perversely, they failed to include any sequences from rotifers, gnathostomulids, chaetognaths, or, in fact, anything that might actually be comparable to Acanthocephala.
• Certainly there is little coherence in her timetabled day: indeed perversely its very staccato pattern is a feature Susie quite enjoys.
• A writer-caretaker who, snowbound in this sepulchral hell, eventually loses it, his descent into madness is displayed through the most perversely witty of character arcs.
• His horse, the tall grey he perversely favoured, was tethered at the gatehouse; no great beauty in looks or temperament, hard-mouthed, strong-willed, and obstinate, with a profound contempt for all humanity except his master, and nothing more than the tolerant respect of an equal even for Hugh. The Heretic's Apprentice