Crossword-Solution: PERVERSE
Dictionary
| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERVERSE | anagram | PRESERVE |
We have 38 clues for the answer “PERVERSE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| 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.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quotes with PERVERSE (3)
Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling 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…
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.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).