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perverse
01
inclined to act stubbornly and to hang on to what is wrong
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
qualitative
Superlative
most perverse
Comparative
more perverse
gradable
Examples
Despite all the evidence, he held a perverse belief that the earth was flat.
02
contrary to accepted standards or practices
Examples
The ruling was perverse, contradicting decades of legal precedent.
Lexical Tree
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perverseness
perversion
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