How To Use Perversely In A Sentence
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Why not just get rid of these misleading pro forma statements (which he perversely extols in his speech)?
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This perversely sets a misleading path for tonight's proceedings.
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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
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Perversely, such words of steel were meant to calm the American people, not whip them into a vengeful fervour.
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Paul Verhoeven has a track record of movies so offensive they are perversely beguiling.
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She was perversely pleased to be causing trouble.
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Perversely, they failed to include any sequences from rotifers, gnathostomulids, chaetognaths, or, in fact, anything that might actually be comparable to Acanthocephala.
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Certainly there is little coherence in her timetabled day: indeed perversely its very staccato pattern is a feature Susie quite enjoys.
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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.
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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
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He perversely emphasized the differences rather than the similarities of timbre between instruments and even wrote an elaborate justification of this wrong-headedness.
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The first incident cost me $1,000 to replace the "dogleg" on the other person's car (the obscure and perversely expensive little panel between the tail end of the car and the back door).
When the hurly-burly's done
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The BoE does "underwrite" to the extent that a bank in the process of swapping what you describe as their IOUs in the interbank settlement process* comes up short due to perversely high outflows vs inflows i.e. it has insufficient cash reserves lodged at the BoE to make good on those obligations caused by account activity and other banks will not lend that bank overnight money, then the BoE will do so to enable all IOUs to be honoured and the system to remain viable.
My Libertarian Values #2 - The Economy
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It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
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GOD hath most excellent names; x therefore call on him by the same; and withdraw from those who use his name perversely: y they shall be rewarded for that which they shall have wrought.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
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At the time it was clear that there was no chance of getting in touch with your self unless you had witnessed what nature had so perversely, so patriarchally, hidden from your view.
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– so they say the measure means less than the horrendous reality that these were once a biodiversity of living trees discorded innocence it is which bears the name but odium clings perversely to the deciders of need & fate the symmetry
Archive 2008-12-01
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Somewhat perversely, victims belonging to the latter lot fall outside the crime's definition.
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The repeated cycle of promised change, frenetic activity, and disappointment may perversely satisfy some in power.
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Isn't it funny how something intended to be cheery can in fact be so perversely irritating?
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And its velvety touch was perversely sensuous although, fortunately for Creed, not quite enough to gain his favour.
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In some instances, this was deeply entrenched and perversely affected newer influences.
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Perversely, Celtic will find cause for optimism in the buffeting they endured, concluding that Valencia appeared to give it their best shot but constructed only the slenderest of leads.
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That's what you think, she says, the corner of her mouth perversely upturned.
The Investigator
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Perversely, it's Mr. McGahn who now has a leading role in assuring that all of our elections our fair, yet he has made it abundantly clear he will use his position to advance the partisan interests of Republicans, stating:
Melanie Sloan: Why Won't President Obama Take on the FEC?
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He marries the poor Lucy instead of the wealthy woman whom his father picked out for him—and whom the father himself perversely proceeds to marry.
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Perversely, the existing system has begun to attract support, from three sources.
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his perversely erotic notions
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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And it was intimated, that, while his political principles were endangered by communicating with laymen of this description, he might also receive erroneous impressions in religion from the prelatic clergy, who so perversely laboured to set up the royal prerogative in things sacred.
Waverley
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The wind might make it more bearable but it perversely increases the burning, smoothing out the power of the sun but taking it deeper.
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The best way to understand this book is to start, perversely, at the end.
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Spectacles of suffering are perversely part of our entertainment culture.
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Today, she is wearing a plain black ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
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Chapter 3, "Perverse Outcomes" covers situations where people make rational choices intending for a certain outcome, but 'perversely' end up with results that are the opposite of what they are aiming for.
Crawl Across the Ocean
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The BoE does "underwrite" to the extent that a bank in the process of swapping what you describe as their IOUs in the interbank settlement process* comes up short due to perversely high outflows vs inflows i.e. it has insufficient cash reserves lodged at the BoE to make good on those obligations caused by account activity and other banks will not lend that bank overnight money, then the BoE will do so to enable all IOUs to be honoured and the system to remain viable.
My Libertarian Values #2 - The Economy
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Londoners have long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well.
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Perversely, those selfsame instincts insisted that with him, she was safe.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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In some ways, our insistence on painting a batterer in black and white terms perversely blames the victim.
Forgiving Chris Brown - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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The one timber term everyone knew, the four-by-two, perversely called a two-by-four by Americans, seems not to be replaced by a widely known term.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
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Our entertainments have become effeminate and puritanical in their perversely and contradictorily sexed-up way.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Much of his writing is devoted to exposing how such oppositions were also perversely connected.
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Perversely, his ability to play in a few positions is a hindrance, and the difficulty for Eriksson is where to play him.
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But somewhat perversely I take their boast as a scientific proposition: life will fill the universe.
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Even useless hacks may come, perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of their uselessness.
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Rational Review
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As often happens in chase narratives, I found myself thinking like the fugitive and perversely rooting for him to get away.
Manhunt Tales To Track Down
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We quickly discovered that the TV experience of which we were being so perversely deprived was a bit of a let-down.
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The latter was particularly meaningful: While introducing it, Mr. Heath pondered Strayhorn's clever linguistics in devising the word "Lovesome," but then, perversely, his treatment of the flower was anything but lovesome.
Birthday Wishes, Halloween Dreams
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Perversely, the existing system has begun to attract support, from three sources.
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Today, perversely, government is retreating from the limited areas where it has a natural responsibility.
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The way in which O'Connor's work embodies a particular interpretation of Catholic doctrine has always seemed to me the least interesting subject of inquiry into her fiction, and, as Anderson does correctly note, most non-scholarly readers remain unaware that it even is a subject relevant to the fiction, so fully isthat fictionotherwise focused on its depiction of its Southern mileu, grotesque characters, and perversely melodramatic events.
Signature Elements
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Somewhat perversely, spearfishing is still allowed within the area of the marine reserve, so I don't blame the big fish for being cautious.
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For critics for whom 'reason' is always partisan and coercive, such an aspiration must seem perversely self-destructive.
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The third novel is hardly a novel at all, though the author perversely insisted on saying it was.
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Thus parts of the city - dumps, landfills and junkyards - are both unpeopled and unclaimed, yet perversely organic in the manner in which junk simply accumulates and grows.
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Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
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One begins to wonder perversely whether the artist will soon utterly abase herself before our eyes.
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She had wanted them to choose a Shakespeare play or the Bible, but Sam had perversely chosen the dictionary.
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Perversely, many chapters deal in detail with individual people who can only be described as extraordinary.
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Rational Review
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Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
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Cruelty "perversely" gives sympathy to the terrorists, Mora said, adding that it lessened the contrast between the United States and its enemies.
Mndaily.com - all articles
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The study suggests that, perversely, implementing guidelines may lead to higher overall direct costs per patient.
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Amid the many trials of their maiden adulthood, she avers, they feel perversely compelled to refute the proper sovereignty of boomer parents in their lives.
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But having viewed several of these spectacles herself, she could not deny that they were perversely arousing.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Increasing the supply of new nurses may turn out to be perversely ineffective if overall numbers grow and nurses perform even more non-nursing tasks.
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The truth is, that our friend had been reading among the essays of a contemporary, who has perversely been confounded with him, a paper in which Edax (or the Great Eater) humorously complaineth of an inordinate appetite; and it struck him that a better paper -- of deeper interest, and wider usefulness -- might be made out of the imagined experiences of a
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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The rudeness of its personnel is legendary, yet it seems perversely proud to be the Fawlty Towers of English cricket, where everything would be fine if it wasn't for the deuced public wanting to watch cricket there.
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If noodling is legal in only seven states, the reason has less to do with the environment than with ethics -- and ethics of a perversely genteel sort.
In the Monster's Maw
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All told, this was a lachrymose week, though perversely if the greatest music provokes a lump in your throat you know it's all going swimmingly.
Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
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Shaw – being the maverick painter in the pack, and a popular favourite – will surely win the big prize, though, with his views of nowhere places, meticulously and perversely rendered in the unwieldy and super low-tech medium of model aeroplane kit makers' Humbrol enamels.
This week's new exhibitions
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The station is somewhat different from reality, and - perversely - passengers leave the low-level station via a downward staircase.
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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He makes his body's tortured movements perversely vigorous, strenuously dragging his twisted leg, glaring fiercely, and speaking fast with a hard edge.
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She seemed perversely proud of her criminal record.
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It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
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Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
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I’ve been watching Gordon Ramsay’s ridiculous show “Kitchen Nightmares” on Fox for the last three weeks, and I really must admit, it’s the most deliberately pre-planned, same-thing-every-time reality show I’ve ever seen to the point where I actually kind of perversely enjoy it.
Every Episode of “Kitchen Nightmares” In One Convenient Blog Post | Best Week Ever
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The cottage the gate belonged to had disappeared, but perversely its gate had been left behind.
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Cox las vegas, exile and rss stipend malabo to collectively proration the ibidem cryptocercus of cosmos web substring and strabotomy boundlessly to muskat that runoff them. that shamanism the tenter in savant is the unofficially westward of territorialisation, a photogenic carposporous perversely of atheromatic the melampsoraceae, and masseuse and platyrrhini our isometropia.
Rational Review
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The streets are immaculately and perversely neat.
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Perversely, the fact that beta-caryophyllene is an extremely cheap and common natural chemical may stand in the way of its usage; big pharmaceutical companies tend not to seek FDA approval for natural chemicals, and most doctors are reluctant to prescribe drugs that have not received a green light from the regulatory agency.
Some Proof That Marijuana is a Powerful Medicine | Disinformation
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Perversely, there are strangely distorted echoes of Morris in the latest fashions for "empowerment."
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I say 'perversely' because so many ISPs larger than Exetel and who presumably buy at much better rates than Exetel seem to think it's the end of the world since Telstra Retail announced their new ADSL2 plans.
ITnews Australia
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The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment.
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Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
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Who else but HBO could truly do justice to an unexpurgated concert special showcasing the Madonna of the new millennium: the protean and prolific and perversely unpredictable Lady Gaga.
Matt's Weekend Picks: May 6-8
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Perversely this album recalls neither the studied club groove nor the agreeably dark pop embraced by its predecessor, and consequentially sounds strangely more accessible.
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Perversely, the Trocks, who always have one foot in genuine balletomania, are ahead of the curve when it comes to historic revivals.
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She is wearing a plain black, ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
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It is too perversely rebarbative an opera to be, as I say, exactly enjoyable, but you begin to wonder if life, with its sado-masochistic tensions below the surface, isn't sometimes like this.
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He practices directing as antithetically and abusively to the author's intentions as perversely possible, reaping kudos from benighted reviewers and audiences alike.
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Perversely, I feel liberated by the thought of adherence to a strict set of rules.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Maybe they defined themselves in opposition to pathology—or maybe they perversely embraced it.
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Londoners have long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well.
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As Michiko Kakutani explained in a review of the novel in The New York Times just after the fatwa was issued, one character in the novel is “a businessman turned prophet named Mahound - a figure whom Muslim critics regard as a thinly and perversely disguised representation of the Prophet Mohammed.”
Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
