perverseness in English

noun

[pə(r)'vɜrsnɪs /-'vɜːs-]

deviance, abnormality, aberrancy

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1. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

2. The mouth of the righteous one —it bears the fruit of wisdom, but the tongue of perverseness will be cut off.

3. Cussedness: 1 n meanspirited disagreeable contrariness Synonyms: orneriness Type of: contrariness , perverseness , perversity deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

4. Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness ? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

5. Hypernyms ("Cussedness" is a kind of): contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline) Derivation: cussed (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing)

6. 13 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

7. NAS: will guide them, But the Crookedness of the treacherous KJV: shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors INT: of the upright will guide the Crookedness of the treacherous dead