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perverse

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8 lettersPronunciation /pɚˈvɝs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eeeprrsvStarts with PEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

Word origin

From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).

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  • Any man who succeeds in diverting the public taste, or in turning back a perverse stream which will flow in the direction of the ditch, leaves a mark, as it were, and cannot be overlooked by posterity.
  • But in the same sense are modern Nietzsche's screams against the perverse (diverted) diffusion of these elemental pleas to reason for “reasons,” for the reasons—and place—of our fall in nonsense.
  • The diverted or perverse way is also not an easy path to walk. It is rightly called “crooked” and “twisting.”

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