The word "perversity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is wrong or twisted, with the implication that the wrong or twisted behavior is deliberate and malicious. For example: "The perversity of the politician's actions showed her contempt for the people she was supposed to serve."
And despite the reliable perversity of a first-past-the-post electoral system in a multiparty democracy, there's never any easy way to tell whom it may favour.
In particular, the use of lurid colour seems to anticipate both the fauvists and the impressionists, while the identification of the body as a site of polymorphous perversity leads us straight into the realms of the surrealists.
As soon as these acts were described, they were consigned to the realm of perversity, cast as the practices of "criminals", "animals" and "devils".
But their anger is justified: the coalition government is ruining Britain for reasons of ideological perversity.
Time, circumstances, and agent have all conspired as by some cruel perversity to increase the mischief and the horror of an act which at any moment, or under any circumstances, would have been most mischievous and horrible.
Most intriguing is a streak of perversity that runs through the stories, with Mr Franco especially potent on the subject of sexuality and human anatomy.
An individual must prove that, say, a quarter, an eighth, or a sixteenth of his "blood" is from a given tribe.Casino money has brought out the perversity in these rules.
And even though at the moment it is cranking out nearly 10m bpd, roughly the same as Saudi Arabia, it will not be able to keep it up.Hands off our oilThe biggest obstacle the majors face in replacing their reserves is the fundamental perversity of the oil business.
On January 31st they offered their answers.Mr Crockett started by noting the perversity of the way the IMF pays for itself.
The perversity of another standout film, "The Lobster", took a more delightful form.
The perversity is breathtaking: rules to protect investors encourage firms not to grow.It is a similar story when it comes to tax.
