Synonyms for perverse
pərˈvɜrsper·verse

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1. perverse

   Perverse (Latin perversus, turned the wrong way) signifies wilfully wrong or erring, unreasonably set against right, reason, or authority. The stubborn or obstinate person will not do what another desires or requires; the perverse person will do anything contrary to what is desired or required of him. The petulant person frets, but may comply; the perverse individual may be smooth or silent, but is wilfully intractable. Wayward refers to a perverse disregard of morality and duty; froward is practically obsolete; untoward is rarely heard except in certain phrases; as, untoward circumstances. Compare OBSTINATE.

   Synonyms:
   contrary, factious, fractious, froward, intractable, obstinate, petulant, stubborn, ungovernable, untoward, wayward, wilful

   Antonyms:
   accommodating, amenable, complaisant, compliant, genial, governable, kind, obliging

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1. perverse

   Synonyms:
   froward, untoward, stubborn, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, intractable, crochety

   Antonyms:
   docile, ductile, amenable, governable, complacent, accommodating, pleasant, obliging

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1. perverseadjective

   marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict

   "took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans"

   Synonyms:
   depraved, perverted, reprobate, obstinate, contrary, wayward

   Antonyms:
   neutral, obedient, positive, incorrupt

2. contrary, obstinate, perverse, waywardadjective

   resistant to guidance or discipline

   "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

   Synonyms:
   depraved, obdurate, unrepentant, obstinate, wayward, perverted, reprobate, stubborn, cussed, unregenerate, contrary, adverse

   Antonyms:
   positive, incorrupt, obedient, neutral

3. depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobateadjective

   deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

   "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

   Synonyms:
   depraved, misrepresented, obstinate, wayward, perverted, twisted, kinky, contrary, reprobate, distorted

   Antonyms:
   positive, obedient, neutral, incorrupt

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1. perverseadjective

   Synonyms:
   distorted (from the right), bad

2. perverseadjective

   Synonyms:
   obstinate, stubborn, wilful, dogged, mulish, untractable, unyielding, headstrong, pertinacious, wayward, CANTANKEROUS, PIG-HEADED

3. perverseadjective

   Synonyms:
   cross, petulant, waspish, captious, snappish, touchy, testy, crusty, churlish, crabbed, froward, morose, surly, snarling, ill-tempered, ill-natured

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1. perverseadjective

   Synonyms:
   perverted, misdirected, erring, depraved, vitiated, intractable, obstinate, stubborn, contrary, headstrong, indocile

   Antonyms:
   obedient

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1. List of paraphrases for "perverse":

   perverted, pernicious, warped, absurd, evil, wicked, kinky, vicious, adverse, distorted

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How to use perverse in a sentence?

1. Proverb:

   Fools and the perverse fill the lawyers' purse.

2. Caitlin Oakley:

   Actions announced today on list prices further illustrate the perverse incentives of America's drug pricing system, drug companies raising their prices and offsetting them with higher rebates benefits everyone but the consumer, who routinely pays out of pocket based on list price.

3. Thomas Mann:

   Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

4. Sophocles:

   Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

5. Ben Carson:

   We’re removing all those kinds of perverse disincentives.