Andrew Ross Sorkin

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.

American Journalist

Marquis de Lafayette

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

French Revolutionary

Clifford D. Simak

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

American Writer

Anne Bronte

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

British Novelist

Voltaire

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

French Writer

Arthur Schopenhauer

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

German Philosopher

Anthony Trollope

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

English Author

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Uddhav Thackeray

Politicization of Sushant Singh Rajput's death was cheap politics... worse than perversity.

Perversity often implies negative judgment and disapproval toward something that's abnormal.

Negative Connotation

Use 'perversity' when describing something that is both unusual and unwelcome.

Unpleasant Unnaturalness

What is considered perversity can vary greatly between different cultures, be mindful of context.

Cultural Sensitivity

Use 'perversity' to emphasize an intentional and stubborn refusal to follow reason or expected behavior.

Willful Opposition

'Perversity' captures a sense of irritation caused by someone's unnecessary contrariness.

Emotional Color

‘Perversity’ is often linked with actions that seem to go against what would benefit the individual.