1) Cantankerous 2) Contrary 3) Cussed 4) Deliberately unreasonable 5) French word used in English 6) How poets are paid 7) Negative 8) Unreasonable 9) Wayward 10) Wrongheaded 11) Wrongly self-willed 1) Contrarious 2) Contrary 3) Corrupt 4) Crabbed 5) Cross-grained 6) Cussed 7) Difficult 8) Disobedient 9) Negative 10) Reprobate 11) Stubborn 12) Unhelpful 13) Unnatural 14) Untoward 15) Untowardly 16) Warped 17) Wayward 18) Wry 
• (a.) Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. • (a.) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
Per·verse' adjective [ Latin perversus turned the wrong way, not right, past participle of pervertere to turn around, to overturn: confer French pervers . See Pervert .] 1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perv...
[adj] - marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict
[Wuthering Heights] obstinately disobedient or difficult.
adjective marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict; `took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans`