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• r  deliberately deviant
  his perversely erotic notions
• r  in a contrary disobedient manner

• The Passion will be told boldly, perhaps perversely in two dead tongues: Latin, used by the Roman occupiers of Palestine, and Aramaic, the language of most Semites at the .
• You have to wonder whether maybe, perversely, the process will be helped along by everything that John McCain is doing to slow it down.
• Her book is as perversely engrossing, gossipy and gamy as a clandestine conversation in the lobby.

• contrarily
• contrariwise

News & Articles

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• Uneasy Alliances: Infighting may be easier, but we need each other to move forward
  Opinion: As the fight for marriage equality continues in the states, the forces of social reaction redouble their efforts to brazen their way past the fact that they are losing. Our opponents' war with reality is darkly comical. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli , the Republican nominee for governor, perversely asserts that laws criminalizing certain sex acts between consenting adults ...
  July 4, 2013 - Metro Weekly

Quotes

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• George Carlin in Daily Report
  Comedian George Carlin, who died on Sunday at the age of 71, told The Associated Press earlier this year that his name "is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of."
• Achim Steiner in Forbes
  Africa has "the least responsibility for climate change and yet it is perversely the continent with the most at risk if greenhouse gases are not cut," Steiner said.
• John Dingell in Kansas.com
  GAO has raised troubling questions about whether a nonproliferation program has perversely funded a younger generation of (Russian) weapons scientists,said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.