perversity

How To Use perversity In A Sentence

• In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
• It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy.
• It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
• This is an eruption of postadolescent, you know, perversity, which found its voice in unions and in the media. President Gingrich?
• If, again, it is permitted to pretend that the passage has another meaning, and was written as it is from some reason unknown to us, this is no less than a complete subversal of the Bible; for every absurd and evil invention of human perversity could thus, without detriment to Scriptural authority, be defended and fostered. Theologico-Political Treatise
• The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
• But the perversity is not limited to developing economies. Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green
• His ability seemed to spring from perversity; perhaps even from unhappiness.
• That Chiltern which she called her Viking, and which, with a woman's perversity, she had perhaps loved most of all, was but one expression of the other man of days gone by. A Modern Chronicle — Complete
• Thus it is that the weakness of our intellect and the perversity of our will lend each other mutual support; and that, generally, a disputant fights not for truth, but for his proposition, as though it were a battle pro aris et focis. The Art of Controversy