Perverted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 turn another way; to divert. [Obs.]
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              Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
                                                    --Shak.
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     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 intentionally; as, to
        pervert one's words. --Dryden.
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              He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve. --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  perverted
       adj 1: (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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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