Entry Word: perverse

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 easily irritated or annoyed <how can you be so cheerful one day, and so perverse the next?> — see irritable
2 having or showing lowered moral character or standards <social conservatives who believe that Hollywood is a perverse world that exerts an unhealthy influence on the young> — see corrupt
3 sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion <a fact so self-evident that not even the most perverse of opponents could deny it> — see obstinate