He gets perverse satisfaction from embarrassing people.
他通过使人难堪获得变态的满足感。
—perverselyadverbadv
Perversely, she was irritated by his kindness.
他的好意反倒激怒了她。
Examples from the Corpus
perverse• Accordingly, the initialreaction of the equity markets was utterly perverse.• His characters seem at first sightuseless or even perverse.• The whole idea is too perverse.• These perverse effects are compounded by the heavy political price that has to be paid: the abandonment of monetarysovereignty.• Louise could be perverse, often for reasons unclear to him.• Sadistic people deriveperversepleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this.• a perversepolicy• People in Minneapolis take a perversepride in how cold their winters are.• But he didn't know that, and a perverse sense of devilry urged her to lead him on.• In a perverse way, the same is now true of moderncapitalism.
Originperverse
(1300-1400)Latin past participle of pervertere; → PERVERT1