# perverted

Pronunciation: say "pur-VURT-id" US /pɚˈvɚtɪd/, UK /pəˈvəːtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Of, relating to, or taking part in unusual or kinky sexual practices.
   - Simple: Liking or doing unusual sex acts, or having to do with them.
   - _Neighbors complained about the perverted graffiti scrawled across the bus shelter._
   - _She laughed off his perverted comments, but she never sat next to him again._
2. Straying from accepted standards of what is right, normal, or correct.
   - Simple: Turned away from what most people think is right, normal or correct.
   - _Only a perverted sense of justice could punish the victim instead of the thief._
   - _He took a perverted pleasure in watching his rivals fail._
4. Altered, distorted, or misrepresented.
   - Simple: Changed or twisted so that it no longer shows the truth.
   - _The film offers a perverted version of history in which the villains are heroes._
   - _The rumor that reached the board was a perverted account of the meeting._

## Verb

3. Past tense and past participle of pervert. — simple past and past participle of pervert
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of pervert. Use it for something that was twisted or used in a wrong way.
   - _Critics said the senator had perverted the purpose of the law to help his donors._
   - _Years of unchecked power had perverted his once-honest ambitions._

## Adjective

5. Reversed in chirality, as a mirror image is; flipped. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Turned into its mirror form, the way a left hand mirrors a right hand.

## Origin

Formed from pervert and the suffix -ed.

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