Perverted PERVERT'ED, pp. Turned from right to wrong; distorted; corrupted; misinterpreted; misemployed.

perverted adj 1: (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices" [syn: kinky, perverted] 2: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted] 3: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate]

perverted adjective Date: 14th century 1. corrupt 2. marked by perversion • pervertedly adverb • pervertedness noun

perverted 1. If you say that someone is perverted, you mean that you consider their behaviour, especially their sexual behaviour, to be immoral or unacceptable. You've been protecting sick and perverted men... ADJ [disapproval] 2. You can use perverted to describe actions or ideas which you think are wrong, unnatural, or harmful. ...a perverted form of knowledge. ADJ [disapproval]

Pervert \Per*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Perverting.] [F. pervertir, L. pervertere, perversum; per + vertere to turn. See Per-, and Verse.] 1. To turnanother way; to divert. [Obs.] Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath. --Shak. 2. To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words. --Dryden. He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve. --Milton.

perverted pəˈvə:tɪd adj. deviant, deviate, abnormal, amoral, unmoral, immoral, bad, depraved, unnatural, warped, twisted, profligate, dissolute, delinquent, degenerate, evil, wicked, malign, malicious, malefic, malevolent, evil-minded, sinful, iniquitous, base, foul, corrupt, unprincipled: Members of the Hell-Fire Club yielded themselves up to the most perverted, abandoned behaviour.

178 Moby Thesaurus words for "perverted": AC-DC, abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, abroad, abused, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, amoral, amphierotic, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray, at fault, autoerotic, awry, bad, base, bastard, beside the mark, biased, bisexed, bisexual, bogus, brummagem, butch, catachrestic, colorable, colored, contaminated, contorted, cooked, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, counterfeited, debased, debauched, decadent, deceptive, defective, defiled, degenerate, degraded, delinquent, delusive, depraved, deviant, deviate, deviational, deviative, dissolute, distorted, doctored, dressed up, dummy, effeminate, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, errant, erring, erroneous, ersatz, evil, evil-minded, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, faultful, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive, flawed, foul, garbled, gay, heretical, heterodox, homoerotic, homosexual, illegitimate, illogical, illusory, imitation, immoral, iniquitous, junky, lesbian, make-believe, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, man-made, mannish, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misquoted, misread, misrepresented, mistaken, misunderstood, misused, mock, morally polluted, not right, not true, off, off the track, out, outraged, peccant, perverse, phony, pinchbeck, polluted, pretended, profligate, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, reprobate, rotten, sapphic, self-contradictory, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, sinful, slanted, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, steeped in iniquity, strained, straying, supposititious, synthetic, tainted, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortured, transvestite, tribadistic, twisted, unauthentic, unfactual, ungenuine, unmoral, unnatural, unorthodox, unprincipled, unproved, unreal, untrue, vice-corrupted, vitiate, vitiated, warped, wicked, wide, wrong

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