perverseness

The question was innocent enough, but perverseness still held Bud.

This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow.

Today perverseness stopped me asking my father to come and do it for me.

It was probably because there was a fundamental perverseness in his nature.

With the perverseness usual to gas engines, it had refused to work at a critical moment.

"Can anything equal the perverseness of these frivolous feminine toys!"

She blushed again and again over the perverseness of the meeting.

This suggests strangeness, a perverseness in that which causes joy.

He also has the same level of perverseness as Tar-chan.

Perverseness made him want to speak out, pride kept him silent.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her.

But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused to do.

He wondered at the perverseness of fates that seemed always to be bringing new surprises.

He was just ready to start, but Princess, with her usual perverseness, suddenly gave tongue, and disappeared on a trail.

Her plot still makes headlines; "outlandish perverseness" is us.

One couldn't help curse the perverseness that landed this particular audience in our laps for opening night.

The depravity and perverseness excited her even more.

Slowly, the perverseness of creeping inevitability takes over.

And the film's insistence on the necessity of destroying what it claims it most values may be its only real perverseness.

That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness!

I wiped off a few more doorknobs out of sheer perverseness, hesitated over the phone in the front room, and left without touching it.

And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of perverseness."

But I had not told her what I had out of sheer perverseness.

In heavenly Spirits could such perverseness dwell?

And yet, for all her unsettling perverseness, Marling is providing a needed jolt to her field.