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PERVERSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perversely mean? 

PERVERSELY (adverb)
  The adverb PERVERSELY has 2 senses:

1. deliberately deviantplay

2. in a contrary disobedient mannerplay

  Familiarity information: PERVERSELY used as an adverb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PERVERSELY (adverb)


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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