perversity - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • mind: And these reasons arise from the text rather than from some perversity of mind on the part of scholars.
  • nature: Maybe it's the perversity of human nature, or don't they trust their fellow car drivers?
  • race: Now both have been achieved, the perversity of the human race is making them seem a tragedy rather than a triumph.

Converse of object

  • show: This shows the perversity of the strict rules enshrined in the Children Act.
  • highlight: Highlight the perversity small business loan rates where they any time with.
  • buy: It can be in the bleakest story but I don't buy total perversity, utter perversity without hope.
  • produce: It also produces emotional perversity and sudden inexplicable changes in moods.

Adjective modifier

  • sheer: Update: I'm sticking with the original script for the moment from sheer perversity.
  • sexual: But by the time the Morton brothers find them they have been caught up in a world of sexual perversity and fantasy.
  • human: Jacob expresses the tension between human perversity and divine love.
  • such: Such perversity has always been part of the Crimson working method.
  • wilful: So is there an element of wilful perversity at work in Yo La Tengo?
  • utter: It can be in the bleakest story but I don't buy total perversity, utter perversity without hope.

Modifies a noun

  • test: Significantly, the High Court established a ' perversity test ' .

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