Examples of perversely

• Londoners are perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well.

• The ship's carpenter was a good worker, but perversely independent.

• a perversely black comedy

• As we all know, some instructions could, perversely, be taken as direct personal injunctions without reference to the product or package.

• Shorelines are among the most highly populated zones of the world and yet perversely the most vulnerable to environmental change.

• The current is also flowing perversely in the wrong direction in the matter of popular culture.

• Perversely, though, success in drawing issues into the mainstream may have the detrimental effect of reducing their visibility.

• Perversely this annuls the effect the treatment was intended to create.