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perversity
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English
Per·ver·si·tät <-, -en> [pɛrvɛrziˈtɛt] N f form
Perversität
English
English
German
German
Perversität f <-, -en>
prurience with unpleasantness
Perversität f <-, -en>
Perversität f <-, -en>
Perversität f <-, -en>
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Die Bandbreite der Urteile reichte von Beschimpfungen als Perversität bis hin zu literarischen Auszeichnungen.
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Neben optischer Dezenz gedankliche Perversität, nicht nur in den Dialogen.
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Der Text wirft die Frage auf, ob das Streben nach Perversität nicht nur eine Maske auf der Suche nach Sinn und Wissen sei.
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Letztere hatte Tugendhaftigkeit, aber auch jugendliche Naivität, sogar eine gewisse Perversität zu verkörpern.
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Als er die Situation endlich erfasst, steigert er sich in einen Wutausbruch über eine vermeintlich durch den Luxus eingeschlichene Perversität.
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Examples from the Internet (not verified by PONS Editors)
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Sie sind Geschöpfe einer Post-Gender-Welt und überzeugte AnhängerInnen von Partialität, Ironie, Intimität und Perversität.
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cyberfemin.janakorb.de
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They are creatures in a post-gender world and resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity.
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Ruhelos durch Perversität, tot durch Falschheit [ sei ] der, [ der ] dies bricht
www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de
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Restless because of perversity, dead because of deceit [ be ] he [ who ] breaks this
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Ruhelos durch Perversität, tot durch Falschheit [sei] der, [der] dies bricht
www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de
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Restless because of perversity, dead because of deceit [be] he [who] breaks this
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Im Interview, das in der Ausstellung zu lesen ist, erzählt der Regisseur, dass ihn auch Perversität und das von der Gesellschaft auferlegte Joch interessieren.
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www.goethe.de
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In an interview that can be read at the exhibition, the director tells that he is also interested in perversity and the yoke of society.
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Wie immer möchte Cattelan im Vorfeld nicht zu viel über seine Ausstellung verraten, sehr wohl möchte er sein Werk aber irgendwo zwischen » Sanftheit und Perversität « angesiedelt sehen.
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www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at
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As usual, Cattelan does not want to disclose too much about his exhibition in advance. Yet, he wants his work to be located somewhere between “ softness and perversity, ” he says:
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