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• n  deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
• n  deliberately deviating from what is good
  there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism

• CINEMA: Philip Seymour Hoffman, the prince of perversity .
• CINEMA: Philip Seymour Hoffman, the prince of perversity .
• Depicting every imaginable perversity these small, square booklets exist in a cultural twilight zone.

• contrariness
• perverseness

News & Articles

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• Exit Interview: Reality Guru Mike Darnell Recounts His Most Notorious Shows
  As the president of alternative programming at Fox, Mike Darnell developed a well-earned reputation as a showman with a wicked mind. I usually like to take a pitch and twist it into something more evil or more dangerous, says Darnell, who was once called Fox's Point Man For Perversity by the New York Times. Darnell, the man behind some of the most notorious reality series and specials on ...
  Aug. 1, 2013 - TV Guide

Quotes

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• Mal Washer in The Age
  This is just total perversity. This is done for all the wrong reasons and it gives all the wrong messages, and it's not what a civilised country should be doing in its aid program,Dr Washer said.
• Gordon Brown in BBC News
  Five years ago Gordon Brown told the United Nations that the vulture funds were perverse and immoral: "We particularly condemn the perversity where Vulture Funds purchase debt at a reduced price and make a profit from suing the debtor country to...
• Michiko Kakutani in New York Times
  Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that "the novel's gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness," adding that the book was...