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perverted

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verb

past tense of pervert
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as in abused
to put to a bad or improper use accused of perverting the Internal Revenue Service by using it to harass political opponents

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Recent Examples of perverted
Adjective
Otherwise, things can get dicey, spending all day filming bloodied bodies posed in perverted Biblical poses. William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024 In Posobiec’s perverted presentation, children were eaten as well as raped. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
Verb
The real fiends were the ones who perverted science, who attacked this misunderstood giant out of fear, who branded him as something unholy and unworthy to exist, who gave him life but didn’t give him love. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025 Instead, the concept has been perverted to mean higher-ed grandees' exclusive right to determine who participates in scholarly life. Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for perverted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perverted
Adjective
  • In one of many tonally jarring subplots, Vince works out a scam to burn down his dead mother’s house in Brooklyn to collect the insurance money with the help of a corrupt fire marshal.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The writer became inspired to counteract his complicity in a corrupt system.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If your shrubs have distorted, yellowing, or curling leaves or their growth seems stunted, take a close look.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, his big reveal on Monday offered families distorted science, false hope, and unproven and at times dangerous medical advice.
    Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Democrats and civil libertarians said Trump corrupted the system of justice by getting involved.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, what that sets up, in the game of Survivor, is someone ready to be corrupted.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As that installment blew up in fall 2024, a new generation of viewers discovered the Menendezes’ story, including their claims that their parents, whom they were convicted of killing, had abused them.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Epstein’s former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in 2021 of helping lure teenage girls to be abused by him.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, suicide-attack FPVs incorporate AI navigation for autonomous terminal guidance under degraded control.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Under her leadership, the NYBG’s research team has expanded to 81 projects across 79 countries to conserve disappearing plant species, restore degraded ecosystems, and breed crops to withstand drought, sea level rise and extreme heat under climate change.
    Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Republic's look at county-specific numbers also adds clarity to patterns misrepresented in the ADHS report.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Some scientists cited in the DOE's report have said their research was misrepresented or misused in the report.
    Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • DiCaprio has played disturbed and depraved individuals in Scorsese’s films before, but Killers of the Flower Moon is something different.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bell concluded that the plaintiffs failed to show that their data was misused as a result of the breach.
    Chase Jordan October 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But all of these things are used as evidence — sometimes the sole evidence — that a person misused their benefits.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Perverted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perverted. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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