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she takes a perverse delight in upsetting me—siente un placer malsano dándome disgustos
His decision to work in mezzotint was partly perverse, as it was an antiquated medium so labor-intensive that it was only rarely practiced.
I always have this perverse but burning desire to be scared, and it's hard for me to achieve this goal simply because it's hard for me to get scared.
Instead of being taken aback, he felt a perverse obstinacy rise up inside him.
I'm one of these perverse people who will deliberately take a spite against something, just because everyone else likes it.
Also, I'm so stubborn and perverse that her rudeness just made me more determined to get to know her.
His considerable powers of concentration served to amplify the more extreme, uncompromising, even perverse, aspects of his personality.
There is, however, an inflexibility and perverse bias already present in the environing world, and it's this which defamiliarises and removes our projects from us.
It seems his muse, once so pliable, has become perverse and wilful: I commiserate.
But I have this perverse desire to be shaved with a cut-throat razor - by an expert.
The example du jour is his persistent, some might say perverse desire to ram roads through some of our last old-growth forests.
So his decision to show the way last night smacked of a perverse desire to prove something to himself and the world.
But he admits to sharing one trait with his crumpled creation: he's wilfully perverse.