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CONTRARY, PERVERSE, RESTIVE, BALKY, WAYWARD mean inclined to resist authority or control.

CONTRARY implies a temperamental unwillingness to accept orders or advice.

e.g. a contrary child

PERVERSE may imply wrongheaded, determined, or cranky opposition to what is reasonable or normal.

e.g. a perverse, intractable critic

RESTIVE suggests unwillingness or inability to submit to discipline or follow orders.

e.g. tired soldiers growing restive

BALKY suggests a refusing to proceed in a desired direction or course of action.

e.g. a balky witness

WAYWARD suggests strong-willed capriciousness and irregularity in behavior.

e.g. a school for wayward youths

(of a person or their actions) showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences:

〈性格などが〉正道をはずれた; 非を認めない, 強情な.

e.g. Kate's perverse decision not to cooperate.

contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice:

〈人･行い･喜びなどが〉つむじ曲がりの, ひねくれた; 道理をわきまえない

e.g. in two general elections the outcome was quite perverse.

Law (of a verdict) against the weight of evidence or the direction of the judge on a point of law.

sexually perverted.

性的に倒錯した.

perverseness |pərˈvərsnəs| noun

late Middle English (in the sense ‘turned away from what is right or good’): from Old French pervers(e), from Latin perversus ‘turned about’, from the verb pervertere (see pervert).