It's perversely clean, for reasons of its own; and though you can pass on foot scarcely anyone ever thinks of doing so.

"Chiefly to enjoy good conversation, I understand," her husband retorted perversely; and she broke into an appreciative laugh.

I put the handbills in my pocket, and listened for any hints which might creep out in his talk; but he perversely kept silent.

The end of it was that I perversely led him back to the subject of her ladyship's letter.

If Joseph Willet, the denounced and proscribed of 'prentices, had happened to be at home when his father's courtly guest presented himself before the Maypole door--that is, if it had not perversely chanced to be one of the half-dozen days in the whole year on which he was at liberty to absent himself for as many hours without question or reproach--he would have contrived, by hook or crook, to dive to the very bottom of Mr Chester's mystery, and to come at his purpose with as much certainty as though he had been his confidential adviser.

Perversely sleep would try to come then when I did not want it.

Ralph was pleased that she should feel this, and wished her to continue, but he went on, perversely enough.

Home sales were heavily skewed to the northeast as well +47.8% perversely just ahead of Hurricane Florence, which may therefore reverse in September.

"He used his esteemed position as a football scout to perversely prey on a vulnerable young boy with a promising career ahead of him.

Winter has hijacked the weather it seems, It's April and spring hasn't sprung, By now dark days were a thing of the past, Perversely this year they have clung, Most mornings we waken and rise to false dawns, The sun giving off little heat, Odd patches of blue dot a murk-muddled sky, And the daffodils seem in retreat, The temperatures they are unseasonably low, No leaves are attaching to trees, The rain it is heavy whenever it falls, And inevitably there's a sharp breeze, If spring should fail please hasten June, For summer cannot come too soon.

"Sadly a ban would perversely help him in America, and that is where opinion matters.

Perversely I like doing it - to want to do that job you must be crazy.

By the film's final moments, taking place in a small, almost perversely tranquil pod, your racing heart is struggling for calm as much as the captain's.

THE VERDICT There's something perversely watchable about Ray Cooney's scandalously unfunny adaptation of his own stage comedy, mainly thanks to cameos such as Judi Dench as a bag lady and Cliff Richard and Rolf Harris as buskers.

A chance to uninhibitedly make some sort of perversely sad, danceable and funny and despondent songs".