List of antonyms from "pertness" to antonyms from "pessimist"


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Definition of the day : « perversely »

  • As in unnaturally : adv unusually
Example sentences :
  • Perversely, he and Alice did not take to each other in the way Mrs. Yorke had hoped.
  • Extract from : « Gordon Keith » by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Perversely, he hated it for healing, and he poked it viciously to feel it throb.
  • Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
  • Perversely he frowned, as if the thing increased his pain, annoyed him beyond words.
  • Extract from : « Aurora the Magnificent » by Gertrude Hall
  • Perversely, they persisted in huddling in close, tight clusters, as though drawn together by a gravitation of common discomfort.
  • Extract from : « Local Color » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • Perversely, ever since the advent of his keen young disciple, he himself had been less keen.
  • Extract from : « Twos and Threes » by G. B. Stern
  • Perversely, since he seemed bent on rejecting my reward, I became anxious to press it upon him.
  • Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
  • Perversely I continue to be the subject of contradictory and conflicting moods impossible to understand and difficult to describe.
  • Extract from : « Fibble, D. D. » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • Perversely it made August think of Emmy, his wife, and acute dread touched him at the mockery of her wasting despair.
  • Extract from : « The Happy End » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • Perversely enough, whilst Ora's husband was a commonplace though intelligent attorney, Ora was married to a Montana mine-owner.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 » by Various
  • Perversely enough, they had been drawn together by the very attraction of dissimilarity.
  • Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber