It gave him a perverse satisfaction to have defied her.

"The Virgin is not here," he said, his voice laden with a perverse satisfaction.

There was a certain perverse satisfaction in being proved right.

"I rest my case," she said with perverse satisfaction.

I took a small perverse satisfaction in leaving it to him now to initiate things.

Grinning with perverse satisfaction, he rejoined the others across the room.

Given the awful way she'd learned the truth, she found perverse satisfaction in that.

I wondered if it had given her some kind of perverse satisfaction to wear his intimate gift to bed with another man.

And, truth be told, they took a certain perverse satisfaction from a good artillery shoot.

He felt Willie waiting for him to add "my lord," and took a small, perverse satisfaction in not doing it.