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PERVERSELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perversely mean?
• PERVERSELY (adverb)
The adverb PERVERSELY has 2 senses:
2. in a contrary disobedient manner
Familiarity information: PERVERSELY used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deliberately deviant
Context example:
his perversely erotic notions
Pertainym:
perverse (deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a contrary disobedient manner
Synonyms:
contrarily; contrariwise; perversely
Pertainym:
perverse (resistant to guidance or discipline)
Context examples
Perversely sleep would try to come then when I did not want it; so, as I feared to be alone, I opened my door and called out: "Is there anybody there?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Whatever contradictions and inconsistencies there were within me, as there are within so many of us; whatever might have been so different, and so much better; whatever I had done, in which I had perversely wandered away from the voice of my own heart; I knew nothing of.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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