(a.) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
(a.) Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(2) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(3) That, though, is a perverse way of looking at things.
(4) chocolatiers, I very much enjoy your chocolates but am forced to eat them blindfold because of your perverse decision to cast them into the shapes of seafood.
(5) It was a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life, the first of his many films in which Chabrol presents an opposition between a Dionysian character (often called Paul or Popaul) and an Apollonian one (often called Charles), the defender of the status quo.
(6) It is difficult for me to resist a slight sense of envy for those anxiously awaiting A-level results this morning, although this may seem perverse.
(7) (Although traffic noise, perversely, might help it.)
(8) Perversity--the "recruitment of love at the service of aggression"--as a threat to the basic fabric of a couple's love life is one alternative to the normal channels for elaboration of aggression in their relationship.
(9) The killing of badgers to somehow “save” dairy and beef cows is perverse.
(10) Hall blamed the "perverse incentives" created by the government's targets as the cause of the rush of multiple entries.
(11) There is a perverse irony that people who have cracked their iPhones are now being targeted by hackers.
(12) The prednisolone test conducted for evaluation of bone-marrow pool of neutrophils has revealed perversed leucocytic reaction in 39.6% of patients.
(13) Relating the aggressive instinct to narcissism and the sexual instinct to perversion, two modes of functioning are presented which have some points in common and some diverging but which show the dynamics involved in physical and sexual abuse.
(14) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
(15) Social and cultural aspects, a) habits and traditions, b) religious believes, c) tabues, d) nutrition faddism, e) prejudice, aversions and perversions, f) social value of foods, g) industrialized foods.
(16) Soubry compared nicotine to heroin as she spoke of how she found it difficult to give up smoking because nicotine is a "dreadful substance" that creates a "perverse psychology of smoking".
(17) And then, instead of destroying the text, he perversely deposited the manuscript in a Swiss bank vault in the custody of his wife and son.
(18) In a perverse way, it’s a backhanded compliment to what is after all a young coach (he’ll turn 41 at the end of the month) that Kreis, at RSL, gets treated as part of the MLS furniture.
(19) The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.
(20) It is typical of the perverse misalliance that it contains a refusal to participate, with all the attendant disinterest and deadness and lack of creativity usually associated with that condition.
Wrongheaded
Definition:
(a.) Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any connection to terrorism and serious crime is wrongheaded of course, as any application to access phone records when such activity is suspected would be waived through by any judge.
(2) The second set of considerations is practical, and it is here that the campaign feels especially wrongheaded.
(3) At least there is more consistency to Osborne’s position, though on the economy it is still wrongheaded .
(4) Harding described such criticism as “wrongheaded” but admitted that this latest initiative might look like the BBC trying to “cosy up” to the papers just as it is looking for support for the renewal of its royal charter and the licence fee.
(5) "I think it's wrongheaded and will ultimately be self-defeating.
(6) This is a wrongheaded notion which assumes that the citizen is a fool and that political success depends on playing to this folly.
(7) Labour's attacks on Cameron and his team as inexperienced, wrongheaded public school boys were concerted and an obvious attempt to get revenge for John Major's defeat of Neil Kinnock in 1992.
(8) Cameron said: “The eagerness to pass the buck is not just wrongheaded and hypocritical, it also allows extremism to flourish.
(9) Donald Trump travel ban 'simplistic and wrongheaded', says former CIA chief Read more The removal of the CIA liaison had immediate consequences, sources said.
(10) One either goes for the realistic approach, which means that scenes filmed outside spacecraft are screened silently, or one opts for the completely wrongheaded (but significantly less soporific) method in which large objects smashing together in space create exciting explosion noises.
(11) Paul Stephens, a fellow at Chatham House thinktank, said in a research paper the oil “majors” were no longer fit for purpose – hit by low crude prices, tightening climate change regulations and their own wrongheaded strategies.
(12) It is wrongheaded and I don’t think it would enhance the security of our country.” Asked if he thought the ban would be counterproductive for US security, Brennan said: “I do, because a lot of citizens from those countries who have very legitimate reasons to travel to the US are really going to see this as reflecting a very different tone from the US … To me, I think they’re going to see that as profiling specific nationalities.” He was also dismissive of the Trump administration’s preference for the term “radical Islamic terrorism” in describing what it sees as the principle threat to the US.
(13) This forced academisation programme is wrongheaded of itself, but in the context of the very tough and difficult decisions that headteachers are facing it is making their job impossible because they are going to have to spend time and money engaging lawyers and consultants to change their [school’s] legal status.” The issue is also concerning a number of Conservative MPs who fear the speed at which the reforms, which were announced in the recent budget, are likely to be implemented.
(14) Duncan acknowledged today that some of the prepared guidance for school officials included a suggestion that students could compose essays stating how they could help support Obama — an idea the education secretary acknowledged was wrongheaded.
(15) He said the health and social care bill, currently going through parliament, was based on "wrongheaded ideology" that "put the patient not first, but last".
(16) She is strongly pro-Europe, and says: “Our future should be as an open, outward-looking country leading the reform of Europe, not the wrongheaded and damaging isolationism of Labour’s past.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kendall during a hustings in Glasgow.