New Yorkers have historically taken a perverse pride from living in a city that scared the rest of the country to death.

"So many people view the quantity of food they eat at Thanksgiving with a perverse pride," he said.

Still, he said the other day: "I've got this perverse pride in keeping it going.

The previous summer Jack had learned that the people here took a perverse pride in the place's seediness.

But, like most of the other losers that day, she took perverse pride in her disgrace.

But a certain perverse pride of origin caused him to employ it anyway.

"I have a perverse pride in being a member of a group that people shun."

Not taking any chances with us, Roland thought, and felt a moment of perverse pride.

With perverse pride, you start to show him all the horrible things that have gone wrong.

Indeed, she seems to take a perverse pride in the fact that her social status has not been lifted.