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Deliberate unruliness
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perverseness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being perverse; obstinacy or doggedness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perverseness \Per*verse"ness\, n. The quality or state of being perverse. ``Virtue hath some perverseness.'' --Donne.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. deliberate unruliness [syn: contrariness , perversity ]
Usage examples of perverseness.
She had thrust the lively intractable Comus out of her mind, as by his perverseness he had thrust himself out of her heart, and she had chosen the brilliant young man of affairs as her husband.
I know not whether, through an unfortunate but uncurable perverseness in our natures, it may not be even impatient of persuasion.
The prospect of it frightened her so thoroughly, that, with a mixture of true girlish perverseness and folly, she resolved on getting out of the house and proceeding directly by the stage to her friends, the Clarkes.
When they kidded him about his perverseness, Malomar always told them that his favorite relaxation was going down on a woman and that those beautiful women in the magazines had nothing to go down on but bone and hair.