English-French translations for perverse

• pervers
  C'est là, me semble-t-il, un retournement politiquement pervers du principe de subsidiarité. All that seems to me a politically perverse reversal of the subsidiarity principle.
  Une dynamique perverse s'est mise en marche et nous, les Européens, devons essayer d'appuyer les efforts entrepris pour y mettre fin. A perverse dynamic has been set back in motion and we Europeans must try to help stop it.
  Il s'apparente à une ébauche perverse d'élections. It seems to be heralding the elections in a perverse kind of way.

Definition of perverse

• Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted
• Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary
• Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions

Related words

• perversion
• perversely
• perverseness
• perversity
• perversive
• sexual perversion