perversity

Noun
  1. Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline (synset 104916195)
    is a type of: fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
    subtypes: cussedness, orneriness - meanspirited disagreeable contrariness
    same as: contrariness, perverseness
  2. Deliberately deviating from what is good (synset 104860734)
    "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
    is a type of: evil, evilness - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
    same as: perverseness

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