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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
  • According to the latest 2024 Transparency International report, the Americas average 42 out of 100 points on a scale where 100 is very transparent and zero is very corrupt.
    Sofía Benavides, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • With the help of Landy and Nicky Parsons, Bourne goes up against Vosen (David Strathairn), the corrupt director of Operation Blackbriar.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Therefore a crucial work in the career of one of the greatest of filmmakers is missing—and the understanding and appreciation of her career is distorted.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, Black performers, writers, and producers have fought to carve out space in an industry that too often overlooked or distorted their stories.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The baffling Windows 11 update bug that corrupted SSDs now appears to be linked to storage drives running pre-release firmware.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • We are absolutely not corrupted.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The court ruled that Particle plausibly alleged Epic abused its dominance in electronic health records to undermine competition in the payer platform market so that those claims will move forward into discovery.
    David Chou, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The 7-year-old detailed abuse by her father and stepmother, whose 6-year-old daughter was also allegedly being abused, according to the court documents.
    Mike Stunson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Smoke will also lead to degraded air quality.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The challenge grows in degraded or denied GPS environments, where many existing bombs lose precision.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hull and Nohl misrepresented the value of their companies' investments to investors, and paid themselves handsomely based on inflated valuations of assets, records say.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In his appeal though, obtained by PEOPLE, Guobadia argued that their November 2022 prenup was void because Williams allegedly misrepresented herself during negotiations by not disclosing her plans to return to RHOA.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The report also detailed how its AI capabilities were being misused by North Korean operatives who used it to obtain remote jobs at tech companies.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Sensitive information could be stored, analyzed, or misused without families fully knowing.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But many Americans who don't meet the new criteria do still want to get vaccinated to avoid getting sick or spreading the virus to vulnerable family members.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Harry, who served in the British Armed Forces for 10 years, launched The Invictus Games in London in 2014 to honor active duty and veteran service members who have been wounded, injured or sick on the job.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Perverted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perverted. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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