Noun
- 1. contrariness, perversity, perverseness, unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness
- usage: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- 2. perversity, perverseness, evil, evilness
- usage: deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
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