perversity

How To Use perversity In A Sentence

• I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity.
• Acts which may in themselves be regarded as either perverse or bordering upon perversity may be considered permissible if they produce better reproductive sex between married couples.
• I can nowise explain what sort of whim, prank, or perversity it was, that, after all these leave-takings, induced me to go to the pig-stye and take leave of the swine!
• By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness, I felt the more strongly for my creed when I saw it despised among men. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
• … He [Praxeas] was the first to import into Rome this sort of perversity, a man of restless disposition in other respects, and above all inflated with the pride of martyrdom [confessorship] simply and solely because of a short annoyance in prison; when, even if he had given his body to be burned, it would have profited him nothing, not having the love of God, whose very gifts he resisted and destroyed. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
• It would be irresponsible to write his mobile-phone number on the wall of a public lavatory, along with an expression of enthusiasm for some barely legal perversity.
• There is a gorgeous perversity in the idea of a woman forced to a blush by the reality of her own naked body.
• With good British perversity, Sutherland is of course in the far NORTH of Scotland.
• La vie Nouvelle is one powerful and uncompromising film as it searches the dark world of perversity.
• The real perversity is the fact that democratically elected leaders now inhabit a different space from those who elected them.