perverse
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/icons/point.icon CONTRARY, PERVERSE, RESTIVE, BALKY, WAYWARD mean inclined to resist authority or control.
CONTRARY implies a temperamental unwillingness to accept orders or advice.
e.g. a contrary child
PERVERSE may imply wrongheaded, determined, or cranky opposition to what is reasonable or normal.
e.g. a perverse, intractable critic
RESTIVE suggests unwillingness or inability to submit to discipline or follow orders.
e.g. tired soldiers growing restive
BALKY suggests a refusing to proceed in a desired direction or course of action.
e.g. a balky witness
WAYWARD suggests strong-willed capriciousness and irregularity in behavior.
e.g. a school for wayward youths
adjective
(of a person or their actions) showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences:
〈性格などが〉正道をはずれた; 非を認めない, 強情な.
e.g. Kate's perverse decision not to cooperate.
contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice:
〈人･行い･喜びなどが〉つむじ曲がりの, ひねくれた; 道理をわきまえない
e.g. in two general elections the outcome was quite perverse.
Law (of a verdict) against the weight of evidence or the direction of the judge on a point of law.
sexually perverted.
性的に倒錯した.
DERIVATIVES
perverseness |pərˈvərsnəs| noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense ‘turned away from what is right or good’): from Old French pervers(e), from Latin perversus ‘turned about’, from the verb pervertere (see pervert).