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Contrary (8)

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'contrary' is the definition.
(I know that contrary can be written as perverse)

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(Other definitions for perverse that I've seen before include "wilfully obscure" , "'Unreasonable, awkward (8)'" , "Deviant" , "Deliberately unreasonable" , "Preserve in order to be stubbornly intractable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, the Evening Standard and The Telegraph.
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