Crossword-Solution: PERVERSE 8 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Perverse a. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the
right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
Perverse a. Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence,
wayward; vexing; contrary.

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We have 38 clues for the answer “PERVERSE”

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Deliberately awkward 1 answer
Wrongly self-willed 1 answer
Stubbornly wrong. 1 answer
How poets are paid? 1 answer
Wrong-headed 2 answers
CANTANKEROUS OLDSTERS 10 answers
CANTANKEROUS ONE 11 answers
INCOMPLIANT 13 answers
Muley 18 answers
priggish 23 answers
balky 23 answers
perverted 24 answers
impeding 32 answers
anarchistic 43 answers
Bull-headed 44 answers
insurrectionary 44 answers
anarchical 45 answers
treasonous 52 answers
froward 53 answers
ungovernable 54 answers
uncooperative 57 answers
contumacious 60 answers
Recalcitrant 63 answers
obstreperous 65 answers
Obdurate 66 answers
Head-strong? 67 answers
wilful 67 answers
unmanageable 72 answers
Sick 72 answers
Adamant 75 answers
Naughty 76 answers
Wayward 76 answers
Cantankerous 77 answers
contrary 79 answers
Inflexible 81 answers
Obstinate 82 answers
Stubborn 85 answers
Resolute 89 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PERVERSE (5)

Vangard, to Right and Left the Front unfould; That all may see who hate us, how we seek Peace and composure, and with open brest Stand readie to receive them, if they like Our overture, and turn not back perverse; But that I doubt, however witness Heaven, Heav’n witness thou anon, while we discharge Freely our part: yee who appointed stand Do as you have in charge, and briefly touch What we propound, and loud that all may hear.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: “O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.” Hercules and the Wagoner A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Pearl looked as beautiful as the day, but was in one of those moods of perverse merriment which, whenever they occurred, seemed to remove her entirely out of the sphere of sympathy or human contact.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
How could he,—so yellow as she was, so wrinkled, so sad of mien, with that odd uncouthness of a turban on her head, and that most perverse of scowls contorting her brow,—how could he love to gaze at her? But, did he owe her no affection for so much as she had silently given? He owed her nothing.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with PERVERSE (3)

Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.
Therese Doucet A Lost Argument
The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since if there is only finite matter there is not even that, and that for phenomena really to be there they must be more than there. Hence, by appealing to an eternal source for bodies, their art, language, sexual and political union, one is not ethereally taking leave of their density. On the contrary, one is i…
John Milbank Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology
I am an inconsistent creature. Perhaps it is the pressure of my past, and not my own perverse mind, that has made me into this contradictory being. I am all too well aware of this fault in myself. You must forgive me.
Soseki Natsume Kokoro
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Used 5 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).