Crossword-Solution: PERVERSELY 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Perversely adv. In a perverse manner.

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PERVERSELY (5)

Perversely, though, efforts to solve this problem by proliferating `national' character sets produce an evolutionary pressure to use a *smaller* subset common to all those in use.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Although she had been speaking in whispers all day to save her throat, she now perversely summoned the housekeeper and demanded an account of some laundry that had been lost.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
She still responded, mechanically, to the frequent summons of the shop-bell, and, at the demand of her customers, went prying with vague eyes about the shop, proffering them one article after another, and thrusting aside—perversely, as most of them supposed—the identical thing they asked for.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Bellingham watched this perversely proud and obstinate child fling petulantly out of his door, and felt a sympathy for him which was as truly kind as it was helpless.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
His early death had been the only dark spot in his life, unless the papers in Miss Bordereau’s hands should perversely bring out others.
The Aspern Papers Henry James 2008

Quotes with PERVERSELY (3)

The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of chaos, of swimming more naturally in a…
Anais Nin The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
He watched her for several minutes. Something was stirred in him, something not accounted for by the warm smell of the afternoon or the triumphant vividness of red. He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful — then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards. The autumn air was between them, and the roofs and the blurred voices. Yet for a not altogether explained second, posing…
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned