The phrase "perverse man" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe someone who is notably deviating from good, accepted, or expected behavior; someone who is willfully and intentionally stubborn, perverse, and uncooperative. For example, "My boss's perverse attitude towards work has made it difficult to get anything done."
He is, in short, an average, flawed (although some might say skewed, or even perverse) man in North Carolina doing the best he can, which often isn't enough.
This is as good a clue as any to the character of this provocative, morose, secretive, private and perverse man, whose life was a running battle with collaborators, former admirers and critics.
I said 'James Joyce.' She said: 'You really are the most perverse man, because when I last talked to you of James Joyce you said he was a phony, and that 'Finnegans Wake' was a wake only for James Joyce.' I said: 'Try me again next time and I'll attack him again with liberal quotations.' She is very beautiful and is married to a most engaging man, splendidly broken-nosed".
A Prophet opens on 22 January Jean-Pierre Melville His 1955 heist film Bob le flambeur had a big influence on Godard et al. Obsessed with US cinema and its early gangster movies, he was a difficult, perverse man with a taste for dark glasses and trilbys who confounded the Cahiers du Cinéma crowd, who revered him, with his right-wing attitudes.
But here's what he also is: a perverse man who loves power.
The principle object of positive laws is this very disorderliness [dérèglement], to which they oppose a severe punishment to those perverse men [une sanction redoubtable aux hommes pervers].
Quesnay's writing is truffled with demoralization of the "perverse men" who are "out of order" and need to be punished.
It had bawdiness, cheekiness, double entendre, eye-rolling sex gags made by perverse men, matronly women and busty young girls.
They are seen to appear as brilliant and pure, but their souls are worse than mud and dirt, worse even than any kind of deadly poison, these evil and perverse men! (Hymn 58).
outside of myself i watch their tears climb back upwards into the corners of their eyes as they are ridiculed into silence, their lips boil down from slate into granite into hard, black lines cut into the skin where their mouths should as the media's shadow passes over them time and time again, in favor of news anchors defaming of the women lost too soon by calling them perverse men.
In a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article, film director Jim Jarmusch affectionately recommended it as, "Probably the strangest and most perverse 'hit man' story in cinema".
