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Antonyms for perversely

Grammar : Adv
Spell : per-vurs
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈvɜrs

Definition of perversely

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "wicked," from Old French pervers "unnatural, degenerate; perverse, contrary" (12c.) and directly from Latin perversus "turned away, contrary, askew," figuratively, "turned away from what is right, wrong, malicious, spiteful," past participle of pervertere "to corrupt" (see pervert (v.)). The Latin word is glossed in Old English by forcerred, from past participle of forcyrran "to avoid," from cierran "to turn, return." Meaning "wrong, not in accord with what is accepted" is from 1560s; sense of "obstinate, stubborn" is from 1570s. It keeps the non-sexual senses of pervert (v.) and allows the psychological ones to go with perverted. Related: Perversely; perverseness.
  • As in unnaturally : adv unusually
Example sentences :
  • Perversely, he and Alice did not take to each other in the way Mrs. Yorke had hoped.
  • Extract from : « Gordon Keith » by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Perversely, he hated it for healing, and he poked it viciously to feel it throb.
  • Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
  • Perversely he frowned, as if the thing increased his pain, annoyed him beyond words.
  • Extract from : « Aurora the Magnificent » by Gertrude Hall
  • Perversely, they persisted in huddling in close, tight clusters, as though drawn together by a gravitation of common discomfort.
  • Extract from : « Local Color » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • Perversely, ever since the advent of his keen young disciple, he himself had been less keen.
  • Extract from : « Twos and Threes » by G. B. Stern
  • Perversely, since he seemed bent on rejecting my reward, I became anxious to press it upon him.
  • Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
  • Perversely I continue to be the subject of contradictory and conflicting moods impossible to understand and difficult to describe.
  • Extract from : « Fibble, D. D. » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • Perversely it made August think of Emmy, his wife, and acute dread touched him at the mockery of her wasting despair.
  • Extract from : « The Happy End » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • Perversely enough, whilst Ora's husband was a commonplace though intelligent attorney, Ora was married to a Montana mine-owner.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 » by Various
  • Perversely enough, they had been drawn together by the very attraction of dissimilarity.
  • Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber

Synonyms for perversely

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