Perverse or Preverse

Richard Burton~ (about being an actor): Actors are poor, abject, disagreeable, perverse, ill-minded, slightly malicious creatures. And of that august company of idiots, I'm afraid I'm a member.

“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.” 
― Mark Bittman, Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes