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What does "perverse pleasure" mean?
What does "perverse pleasure" mean?
I think perverse pleasure means false pleasure. Is it right?
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Not quite. 'Perverse' usually means doing something against the natural order.
A perverse pleasure is something you enjoy, but probably shouldn't. Perhaps a favourite food you are allergic to. Or laughing when someone falls and hurts themselves. Picking scabs off your knee, knowing it's going to bleed...
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"Perverse pleasure" means something that seems as if it should not be enjoyable, but that you enjoy.
"I should read 'better' books, but the fact is that I take a perverse pleasure in reading Lee Child's cheesy thrillers about Jack Reacher."
For example, in a Gilbert and Sullivan song, a character sings:
"Oh, don't the days seem lank and long
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,
And isn't your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at!"
This character takes a perverse pleasure in being irritated, because he actually likes complaining about how terrible everything is.
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المهارات اللغوية
الإنجليزية, الكورية
لغة التعلّم
الإنجليزية
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