Perverseness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERVERSENESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being perverse
• The quality or state of being perverse.
• deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
• deliberately deviating from what is good
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a verdict) against the weight of evidence or the direction of the judge on a point of law.
• showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable
• contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• turned away from what is right or goo; corrupt; improper, incorrect; contrary to the evidence or the direction of the judge on a point of law

Words related to PERVERSENESS

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Words that contain PERVERSENESS

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How to use PERVERSENESS in a sentence

• And thus maxims have their use to put a stop to their perverseness, whose ingenuity should have yielded sooner.
• And still the emigrant princes were adding to her perplexity by their perverseness.
• Not only did there seem to lurk in it a certain calm disdain, but his perverseness seemed ungrateful, considering the undeniable good usage and indulgence he had received from me.
• Such is the perverseness of the feminine nature, even in Morovenia.
• But limits cannot easily be put to human perverseness.
• There is rebellion and perverseness mingled with the helplessness and ignorance and sorrow.
• This criminal perverseness left Washington with only six thousand men in New Jersey, seven thousand being in New York.
• Chance and disorder, vexation and disappointment, malignity and perverseness within or without the mind, are a sad exchange for the steady and genial processes of reason.
• It might be that the natural perverseness of his blood, unchecked by the noble influence of Stefani Gregor and liberated by the blow, governed his thoughts in relation to Kitty.
• But Lady Sneerwell, and the set she meets at her house, encourage the perverseness of her disposition.
• It only becomes such through human perverseness, misconception and sin.
• Above all, the perverseness of the consuls, and the disagreement between them, and their contentions in all the councils, terrified them.
• There was in truth a strange absence of understanding in most, and a strange perverseness of understanding in the rest.
• The true party leader takes these things as part of that tiresome human stupidity and perverseness with which he must make his account.
• But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her.
• It is but too true that there are many whose whole scheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverseness, and insolence.
• It was a mixture of selfishness and stupidity and perverseness that was the matter with me.
• With the perverseness of age she would try to grope her way about, and more than once had she wandered into danger.
• She had not the expression of insane people, the shifty eyes, the cunning and perverseness, the animal and torpid presence.
• They have resulted from the cupidity, cruelty and inhumanity of masters, and the disobedience and perverseness of servants.
• It is their own disobedience and perverseness that subjects them, for the most part, to cruel treatment.
• I am not opposed to it from any perverseness or any obstinacy.
• He dared not think of what her perverseness might yet lead her to.
• And yet he loved her none the less for her perverseness.

Similar words containing PERVERSENES without suffix s

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