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Перевод: perversity

[существительное]
извращенность ; порочность ; упрямство; своенравие; несговорчивость

Тезаурус:

1. When I first met him he was just an averagely quiet spoken, fairly intelligent hippie and gradually, the perversity and debauchery crept in.
2. If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category, the homosexual sensibility, it would be this connection between perversity and paradox - if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such.
3. The perversity of the decision should not detract from the flaws it appeared to expose in sport's crusade to eradicate drug abuse, nor the manner in which it showed that financial considerations were as responsible for the debacle as the gross ineptitude of the DLV.
4. Most of the time we are able to take such perversity in our stride.
5. Shaw's wit and good humour are at their most engaging in this play, his analysis of language and class characteristically acute, and there is little of the wilful perversity that so often mars his drama.
6. For one thing Barthes's perverse perspective on difference foregrounds a different history, one wherein there is no simple privileging of the marginal: the paradoxically perverse interrelationship between centre and margins, whereby the marginal returns to the centre in a way which disarticulates the centre/margin binary itself, is signified, in this instance, by Barthes inaugurating his professorship with a lecture on the significance of perversity vis--vis language.
7. So it is fairly safe to assume that assistance from Western sources, official and private, will flow to the East in a crusade against the poverty and pollution caused by seventy years of ideological perversity.
8. I like it when a Prince song is overwrought, has been worked at neurotically (Prince's music teeters on the brink of being addled by perfectionism, but never is stifled by attention, because every superfluous squiggle or quiver in the sound is a carnal appendage of the man's polyrhythmic perversity).
9. At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot, and it is characteristic of Winters's perversity (or his independence) that thirty years later, when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot, Winters's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable.
10. Either in the profane - polymorphous perversity that threatens the law and order of the Phallus/Father/adult genital sex; a decentred sexuality without goals (neither reproductive nor relationship-bonding).
11. This point should not be pushed to perversity: the IMF is still clear that a US-style deficit is worse, and it certainly is not being quickly corrected.
12. What seems miraculous, when all is said, is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely.
13. However, in the process the very masculine code of honour which is affronted by Lucio's perverse failure of masculinity is shown to border on a perversity even more excessive than his.