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  • noun Plural form of perversity.

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Examples

  • Rather, it is concerned with particular cases, which can lead to what Mr. Katz cheerfully labels "perversities," or paradoxes.

    Illogical But Not Unjust Jonathan V. Last 2011

  • Kael needs to be read the way she wrote: in bulk with all her crotchets, perversities and forgotten controversies intact.

    What She Found in the Dark Lee Sandlin 2011

  • However we use the revenues, we should resolve the indefensible perversities of national energy policy once and for all, starting with the elimination of federal subsidies for Big Oil.

    William S. Becker: Big Oil's Political Ploy William S. Becker 2011

  • Or, are they simply testosterone-fuelled perversities, operating in the same sphere as MMS messages of pornographic sadism?

    Ethan Casey: Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go? Ethan Casey 2012

  • The perversities can be multiplied, and they are bound to make this move one of the more politically controversial of Mr. Cameron's young government.

    Welfare and Class Warfare in Britain 2010

  • However we use the revenues, we should resolve the indefensible perversities of national energy policy once and for all, starting with the elimination of federal subsidies for Big Oil.

    William S. Becker: Big Oil's Political Ploy William S. Becker 2011

  • By one of the ironic perversities that often attend the course of affairs, the existence of the works of art upon which formation of an esthetic theory depends has become an obstruction to theory about them.

    John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

  • When all is said and done, with unerring accuracy, ObamaCare has ended up doubling down on the system's existing perversities.

    Now, Can We Have Health-Care Reform? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

  • When all is said and done, with unerring accuracy, ObamaCare has ended up doubling down on the system's existing perversities.

    Now, Can We Have Health-Care Reform? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

  • When all is said and done, with unerring accuracy, ObamaCare has ended up doubling down on the system's existing perversities.

    Now, Can We Have Health-Care Reform? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

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