perverseness
- n deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- n deliberately deviating from what is good
- It is with great good humor that he takes the measure of Shaw's "automatic and mechanical perverseness," with true Christian charity that he pities Mark Twain's incurable .
- In the end Laugh Till You Cry falls flat somewhere between Walter Mitty and Dean Swift, but it is good for an hour of fun and an occasional reflection on the perverseness of .
- Though at first he resisted the idea of giving up sprinting, the perverseness of specializing in versatility appealed to his sense of justice and mischief.