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PERVERTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perverted mean?
• PERVERTED (adjective)
The adjective PERVERTED has 3 senses:
1. (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes
2. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
3. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
Familiarity information: PERVERTED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes
Synonyms:
kinky; perverted
Context example:
perverted practices
Similar:
abnormal; unnatural (not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
Synonyms:
distorted; misrepresented; perverted; twisted
Context example:
a perverted translation of the poem
Similar:
artful; disingenuous (not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
Synonyms:
depraved; perverse; perverted; reprobate
Context example:
the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat
Similar:
corrupt (lacking in integrity)
Context examples
Thus the lessons of my life have been perverted!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The man who reviews his own life, as I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to have been a good man indeed, if he would be spared the sharp consciousness of many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and perverted feelings constantly at war within his breast, and defeating him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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