perverseness

How To Use perverseness In A Sentence

• Induction, a posteriori, would have brought phrenology to admit, as an innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness, for want of a more characteristic term. The Imp of the Perverse
• I fear we must call a perverseness of obstinacy, a desire to maintain the resolution she had made, -- a wish that she might be allowed to undergo the punishment she had deserved. Can You Forgive Her?
• Such Delphic obscurity was not inspired by mere perverseness.
• What distinguishes his recent work is an almost maternal sympathy for the perverseness of the human animal - and the twists in its fate.
• There is, unforeseen by the writer, some lack of understanding on the part of the reader or some fear, bias, eccentricity or perverseness on his part of which the writer is not aware.
• Note, Those that are faithless will be perverse; and perverseness is sin in its worst colours. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
• Your sister, who would not in your circumstances have been guilty of your perverseness, may allowably be angry at you for it. Clarissa Harlowe
• Such manners as depend upon standing relations and general passions are coextended with the race of man; but those modifications of life, and peculiarities of practice, which are the progeny of errour and perverseness, or, at best, of some accidental influence or transient persuasion, must perish with their parents. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
• But, with the perverseness which is often seen among women, who are but fools at best, though made to be loved, she had placed her affections upon a youth, who had distinguished himself by no valiant deeds in war, nor even by industry or dexterity in the chase. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
• This is partly because he is compassionate about the suffering of ordinary Europeans, but also exasperated by their masochism and perverseness.