Meaning & use

perverse

adjective·Advanced

Deliberately behaving in a way that is unreasonable or contrary to what is expected or right.

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It seemed perverse of him to reject the promotion he had worked so hard for.

There's a perverse satisfaction in finishing the hardest task on the list first.

A note on using this word

"Perverse" implies a willful, almost stubborn insistence on the wrong or unexpected choice, not simple error.

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