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perversity

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10 lettersPronunciation /pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/Part of speech nounSorted eeiprrstvyStarts with PEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. deliberately deviating from what is good

Word origin

From perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās.

Used in a sentence

  • More generally, for the ULD property to hold, the substitution effects (which are always well behaved) must be large enough to overcome possible “perversities” coming from the wealth effects.
  • “Of all this world's perversities, there is only one I cannot abide: the kink-shame. I'm off!” “You can't walk out! I'm walking out!”

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