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What is the adjective for perverseness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs perv, pervert and perve which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

perverse
  1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
  2. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
  3. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. depraved, degenerate, perverted, immoral, debauched, debased, dissolute, degraded, decadent, reprobate, warped, dissipated, sick, unwholesome, rakish, libertine, base, demoralised, demoralized, unclean, loose, jackleg, rakehell, rakehelly, deviant, abnormal, twisted, unhealthy, pervy, unnatural, sicko, kinky, improper, miscreant, rotten, corrupt, wicked, licentious, sinful, lewd, wanton, profligate, impure, abandoned, evil, sordid, vile, unchaste, lascivious, lecherous … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “It would have appealed to his perverse desire to encourage his opponents' worst thoughts about him.”
      “He is obsessed with perverse fantasies of the sadomasochistic abuse of the self.”
      “By their perverse disputing they reveal themselves to be of a perverse and corrupt mind, destitute of the truth, and more studious of gain than of godliness.”
perverted
  1. deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct
  2. misrepresented, altered or distorted
  3. Synonyms:
      4. debased, debauched, depraved, sick, warped, dissolute, perverse, vile, aberrant, abnormal, amoral, corrupted, degenerate, deviant, evil, immoral, twisted, wicked, decadent, degraded, dissipated, reprobate, abandoned, corrupt, demoralised, demoralized, deviate, libertine, sicko, unclean, unwholesome, vicious, wayward, wrong, bad, contorted, grotesque, jackleg, kinky, loose, pervy, rakish, rotten, sadistic, unhealthy, unnatural, vitiate, misguided, monstrous, rakehell … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The ego's perverted version of this noble drive is the desire for power and control, the urge to conquer the world.”
      “Our systems will be ever conjectural and hypothetical because they are based on incomplete and perverted data.”
pervy
  1. (slang) Behaving or looking like a sexual pervert.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. perverted, debased, debauched, depraved, sick, dissolute, perverse, vile, deviant, decadent, dissipated, libertine, sicko, rakish, degenerate, corrupt, warped, immoral, twisted, loose, wicked, reprobate, licentious, kinky, lascivious, unhealthy, wanton, lewd, libidinous, impure, sinful, lecherous, unwholesome, promiscuous, demoralized, unclean, intemperate, degraded, unnatural, lustful, demoralised, unchaste, concupiscent, abnormal, corrupted, jackleg, fast, rakehell, rakehelly, rotten … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He gave the girl a pervy look, making her feel uncomfortable.”
      “I endured endless temping jobs, meeting and greeting, answering phones and organising filing systems whilst being ogled by pervy City types.”
      “She was also face down in the common room, drunk off her head, with pervy James trying to look up her skirt.”
pervertable
  1. Alternative form of pervertible
pervertible
  1. Capable of being perverted.
perversive
  1. Tending to pervert.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. subversive, revolutionary, insurrectionary, seditious, insurgent, rebellious, mutinous, insurrectionist, dissident, inflammatory, rebel, agitational, insubordinate, renegade, disloyal, riotous, traitorous, incendiary, underground, corruptive, treacherous, treasonous, destructive, disruptive, troublemaking, undermining, corrupting, overthrowing, perfidious, unpatriotic, discrediting, harmful, destabilising, destabilizing, ruinous, rabble-rousing, criminogenic, disobedient, mutinying, contumacious, radical, anarchistic, defiant, rioting, refractory, anarchical, guerrilla, factious, disorderly, resistance … more
perversed
  1. (obsolete) Turned aside.
perverser
  1. comparative form of perverse: more perverse
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sicker, baser, uncleaner, looser, unhealthier, pervier, kinkier, rottener, more depraved, more degenerate, more perverted, more immoral, more debauched, more dissolute, more degraded, more decadent, more reprobate, more warped, more unwholesome, more rakish, more libertine, more jackleg, more rakehell, more rakehelly, more deviant, more abnormal, more twisted, more unnatural, more improper, more miscreant, more corrupt, wickeder, more licentious, more sinful, lewder, wantoner, more impure, more profligate, more abandoned, sordider, eviller, viler, more unchaste, more lascivious, more lecherous, more unprincipled, more corrupted, more indecent, badder, more lustful … more
perversest
  1. superlative form of perverse: most perverse
  2. Synonyms:
      3. last, awfullest, unluckiest, direst, terriblest, unfittest, unpleasantest, unseemliest, wretchedest, least desirable, most inappropriate, least appropriate, least favourite, least suitable, least wanted, most unsuitable, most unwanted, most ill-suited, most improper, most inapt, most inexpedient, most infelicitous, most malapropos, most unbefitting, most unfitting, most untimely, most annoying, most disagreeable, most disastrous, most displeasing, most intolerable, most objectionable, most regrettable, most unacceptable, most undesirable, most undesired, most unfavorable, most unfavourable, most unfortunate, most unpalatable, most unpopular, most untoward, most unwelcome … more
perved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of perv
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ogled, stared, gazed, eyeballed, watched, peered, eyed, gawked, glared, goggled, gawped, looked, rubbernecked, focused, focussed, scrutinised, scrutinized, leered, riveted, rivetted, leched, fixated, gazed at, stared at, looked fixedly, looked at, leered at, eyed up, gawped at, leched after, leched over, gawked at, gave the once-over, given the once-over, laid eyes on, perved on, made eyes at, fixated on, gaped at, gave the glad eye, given the glad eye, gave someone the come-on, given someone the come-on, kept an eye on, made sheep's eyes at … more
perving
  1. present participle of perv
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ogling, staring, gazing, eyeballing, watching, peering, eyeing, eying, gawking, glaring, goggling, gawping, looking, rubbernecking, focusing, focussing, scrutinising, scrutinizing, leering, riveting, rivetting, leching, fixating, gazing at, staring at, looking fixedly, looking at, leering at, eyeing up, gawping at, leching after, leching over, gawking at, giving the once-over, laying eyes on, perving on, making eyes at, fixating on, gaping at, giving the glad eye, giving someone the come-on, keeping an eye on, making sheep's eyes at … more
perverting
  1. present participle of pervert
  2. Synonyms:
      3. altering, doctoring, misinterpreting, slanting, changing, bending, colouring, coloring, faking, misrelating, misconstruing, corrupting, adulterating, distorting, falsifying, misrepresenting, garbling, warping, twisting, misstating, cooking, fudging, subverting, alloying, cutting, desecrating, doctoring up, manipulating, tampering with, fiddling, misreporting, rigging, interfering with, fixing, massaging, trumping up, tinkering with, putting a spin on, forging, misquoting, belying, fiddling with, exaggerating, biasing, biassing, embroidering, embellishing, confusing, overstating, juggling … more
perved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of perv
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ogled, stared, gazed, eyeballed, watched, peered, eyed, gawked, glared, goggled, gawped, looked, rubbernecked, focused, focussed, scrutinised, scrutinized, leered, riveted, rivetted, leched, fixated, gazed at, stared at, looked fixedly, looked at, leered at, eyed up, gawped at, leched after, leched over, gawked at, gave the once-over, given the once-over, laid eyes on, perved on, made eyes at, fixated on, gaped at, gave the glad eye, given the glad eye, gave someone the come-on, given someone the come-on, kept an eye on, made sheep's eyes at … more
perving
  1. present participle of perv
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ogling, staring, gazing, eyeballing, watching, peering, eyeing, eying, gawking, glaring, goggling, gawping, looking, rubbernecking, focusing, focussing, scrutinising, scrutinizing, leering, riveting, rivetting, leching, fixating, gazing at, staring at, looking fixedly, looking at, leering at, eyeing up, gawping at, leching after, leching over, gawking at, giving the once-over, laying eyes on, perving on, making eyes at, fixating on, gaping at, giving the glad eye, giving someone the come-on, keeping an eye on, making sheep's eyes at … more
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