perversity
noun [ C or U ] uk/pəˈvɜː.sə.ti/ us/pɚˈvɝː.sə.t̬i/
反常
the quality of being strange and not what most people would do or expect
I think she disagreed with me out of sheer perversity. 在我看来,她不同意我的看法完全是出于她自己性格的乖戾。
性变态
sexual behaviour that is considered strange and unpleasant by most people
The author of the book seems to be obsessed with sexual perversity. 这本书的作者似乎痴迷于性变态。
See: perverse
- More examples
- The problem with most nature poetry is that it doesn't sufficiently acknowledge Nature's ugliness and perversity.
- the complexity of the political system, with its perversities and special interests
- Hitchcock's treatment of wildly improbable stories of pyschological pressure and criminal perversity
- There's a perversity about self-inflicted physical pain.
- websites that revel in perversities and debaucheries