perverse

adj

1. contrary, contradictory, Archaic. contrarious, froward, contumacious, cross-grained, seditious, refractory, querulous; wayward, disobedient, intransigent, wrong-headed; troublesome, vexatious, difficult; wild, unruly, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable; inconvenient, awkward.

2. aberrant, deviate, deviant, irregular, variable; abnormal, anomalous, anomalistic; strange, odd, peculiar, queer, incongruous; monstrous, freakish, unnatural; distorted, twisted, warped, garbled.

3. cantankerous, quarrelsome, irascible, contentious, obstreperous, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, short-tempered, hot-tempered, hot-headed, touchy, testy, churlish, crusty, edgy, Inf. grouchy, Inf. crabby, crabbed; peevish, cross, captious, petulant, piqued, vexed, petty, huffy; surly, snarling, growling, bearish, currish, snappish, waspish, Sl. bitchy; sullen, sour, moody, splenetic, fractious, atrabilious, bilious, virulent, acerb, acerbic; spiteful, hateful, invidious, ill-willed, ill-disposed.

4. persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, persevering, indomitable, indefatigable, constant, assiduous, unremitting, unyielding, unbending, unrelenting, untiring, unwearying, unwearied, unflagging, unswerving, undeviating, unfaltering, unflinching, sedulous, diligent, zealous; obstinate, intractable, adamant, obdurate, resolute, inflexible, pervicacious, stubborn, dogged, mulish, headstrong, hard-headed, pigheaded; willful, wanton, deliberate, intentional.

5. perverted, corrupt, corrupted, vice-ridden, immoral, unprincipled, unscrupulous, dissolute, abandoned, profligate, depraved, degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, Inf. gone to the dogs, Inf. gone downhill; malevolent, malignant, malign, malicious, maleficent, malefic, evil-intentioned, evil-disposed, evil-minded; evil, iniquitous, base, foul, low, bad, sinful.