What is the meaning of perverseness?

noun

  • Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.
  • Deliberately deviating from what is good.
    • usage: "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
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