Sekirov Dictionary

perverse

UK /pəˈvɜːs/US /pɚˈvɝs/

adjective 5
noun 1
verb 1
forms 7

adjective5

Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
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Wayward; vexing; contrary.
- Where this perverse sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters […]. — 2023
Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
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Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
- But in the same sense are modern Nietzsche's screams against the perverse (diverted) diffusion of these elemental pleas to reason for “reasons,” for the reasons—and place—of our fall in nonsense. — 2008

noun1

(no longer used) A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.

verb1

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(nonstandard) To pervert.
- This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed. — 1545

forms

perversed · perversing · perverses · more perverse · perverser · most perverse · perversest

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