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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perverted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
perverted sexual practices
▪ Local church leaders described the ceremony as "sick and perverted."
▪ the perverted logic of Nazi propaganda
▪ The newspaper has described the killer as perverted and sexually deviant.
▪ They saw the affection she had for such an old man as unnatural and possibly perverted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Have you aided other men in their perverted follies?
▪ The perverted originality of Iago's ruse, now linked to a cause, thereby loses its lurid gleam.
▪ The rituals of the past are perverted and decayed.
▪ The Wasp Factory, his astonishing debut, was a kind of perverted pastoral.
▪ They editorialized with barely concealed racism on the influx of perverted foreign religions.
▪ With perverted hope I wondered if with time love might fail, and all the pain ease.
▪ Yet their deeds have the same perverted outcome.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perverted

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perverted

1660s, "turned from the right way," past participle adjective from pervert (v.). With implied sexual sense by 1897.

Wiktionary
perverted
  1. 1 deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct 2 (context pejorative offensive English) of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex 3 misrepresented, altered or distorted v

  2. (en-past of: pervert)

WordNet
perverted
  1. adj. (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices" [syn: kinky]

  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, twisted]

  3. marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: depraved, immoral, perverse, reprobate]

Usage examples of "perverted".

Jay had never met an Edenist, although back at the arcology Father Varhoos had warned the congregation about them and their soulless technology of perverted life.

Now and then he messes behind his closed door with one or another of the peipis, the perverted boy inmates who drift through the blocks.

With head and hearts perverted by monkish superstition and Spanish tyranny, yet set on fire by the French Revolution, what did they know of liberty!

In a word, they will argue, all particularity in desires and even in perverted judgements upon things, can be referred to such causes, so that Evil lies in this Form much more than in the mere Matter.

It was there that he recruited participants for his amateur pornographic videos, there that he encouraged his wife to expand her list of clients, there that he would listen on the intercom system while she made love, or peep through the holes he had cut in the doors to watch, and there, too, that he would indulge his passion for perverted sexuality.

At thirty-five, Lilliphane had a well honed appetite for sex, having already had three husbands, including the present perverted Eldred, who seemed only able to achieve orgasm when ramming himself into her back passage.

But here it must be noted that this transvection offers a difficulty, which has often been mentioned, arising from one single authority, where it is said: It cannot be admitted as true that certain wicked women, perverted by Satan and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of devils, do actually, as they believe and profess, ride in the night-time on certain beasts with Diana, a goddess of the Pagans, or with Herodias and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the untimely silence of night pass over immense tracts of land, and have to obey her in all things as their Mistress, etc.

The asps were created in laboratory animals and would never have been applied to human beings, had not a man with a desire to control and revenge perverted it to this end.

This, or so Blade reckoned now, would satisfy the blood lust of the people and Beata could call it off when she would, and save Blade and the princess for other things-Blade for her perverted pleasures, Taleen for ransom and power over her hated brother Voth.

He needed to remind himself that if she was a Bostonian, she was a Bostonian perverted.

As a busy clearinghouse for import and export from a dozen thinly colonized but heavily exploited worlds, Mars had its own perverted style of policing, and the UN grumbled but politely turned its eyes to problems less complex and closer to home.

In the legend of the Wild Huntsman, who under the name of Samiel purchases the souls of men with his magic bullets, the folklorist and student of the evolution of religions sees one of many evidences of ancient mythology perverted to bring it into the service of Christianity.

That there were people out there that considered my love of nails and teeth during foreplay and sex to be perverted.

Dread of the perverted gynecologist and his inquisitorial instruments.

The medicines to remedy this perverted condition of the blood and fluids must be alteratives which will act upon the digestive organs and tone the nutritive functions, thus enriching and purifying the blood.