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Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English perverse Middle English -ly English -ly English perversely From perverse + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a perverse manner.
   • There is another reason the films are so entertaining and successful, though (with the franchise earning more than $500 million dollars so far). Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced. 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC:
   • But even if one of the curves is sloped “perversely,” the condition may still be fulfilled […] 2005, Alpha C. Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, page 482:
   • By such perversely exacting standards the possibilities for a genuine, living Inuit art to exist at all are slim. 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:

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