perversity
n. 乖僻; 倔強; 任性; 剛愎
Someone who is perverse deliberately does things that are unreasonable or that result in harm for themselves.
It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend...
阻止這種健康發展的趨勢是沒有道理的。
Psychotherapists often take a perverse delight in criticizing other psychotherapists...
精神治療師們經常幸災樂禍地批評自己的同行。
1. deliberate unruliness
2. deliberately deviating from what is good
It would be wrong to continue out of perversity.
為了故意作對而繼續這樣做是不對的。
She's marrying him out of sheer perversity.
她嫁給他純粹是任性.
The best of us have a spice of perversity in us.
在我們最出色的人身上都有任性的一面.
He did it out of slick perversity.
他全然是出於不合情理的想法做了這件事的.
This about not loving her, physically, bodily, was a mere perversity on his part.
這種所謂不能在肉體上愛她完全是他一種反常的表現.