as in corrupt
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
the perverted values of a society that had taken permissiveness to the extreme
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as in distorted
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
that summary really perverts the other candidate's views on taxes
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as in corrupted
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
a movie that perverted the Bible story by reveling in the sinners' lewd behavior until just before the moment of divine retribution
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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
Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
Still making twisted, sick, perverted material that's hurting children today.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2024
Spufford has a sure grasp of the perverted politics and relentless grind of the wheels of capitalism, circa 1922.
—Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
Mass murders in schools have been committed by shooters for whom an AR-15 is a tool of perverted emancipation.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
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New details of the high-profile figures’ dealings with the perverted financier add color to claims long made by women who say Epstein waved around his big-name contacts while grooming them for abuse.
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Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.—
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The Filipino-language thriller follows Dahlia, a disillusioned police aide who steals money from the safe of her corrupt police chief boss, distributing it to slum dwellers whose homes were destroyed.—
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, with a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27, and the S&P 500 Index’s P/E at 24, are both distorted by tech stocks, such as Nvidia (NVDA).—
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Has that distorted the trajectory of his adult life?—
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President Joe Biden, or whoever is running the White House, grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again.—
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Their shelters have cared for more than 22,000 sick, injured and abused pets in 2024, the most in a decade.—
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Apple spent years ignoring RCS, allowing iPhones to offer a degraded messaging experience with Android users.—
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Figure 4 shows an example of a daytime camera image in degraded visibility conditions, of a 1 m wide buoy at a range of 2 nautical miles (3.6 miles).—
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But ultimately, the Lakota were left voiceless and misrepresented.—
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Stores are not legally required to accept exchanges or give refunds unless the merchandise was defective or misrepresented.—
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For the past week and a half, the phone has been ringing off the hook at SeaWorld’s rescue program as an algae bloom in coastal waters has caused a surge of sick marine mammals and birds.—
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By many accounts, Planned Parenthood is an incurably sick beast whose time is nearing its end.—
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But the militants, while greatly weakened, have repeatedly regrouped, often after Israeli forces withdraw from areas.—
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Those at high-risk for listeria infection are newborns, those who are pregnant, have weakened immune systems, and those aged 65 or older.—
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Drugs, success, and conflicting personalities had poisoned members’ relationships.—
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The iconic American bird was almost wiped out in the 1960s due to the pesticide DDT, which poisoned the eagles and made their eggs weak and flimsy.—
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“Perverted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perverted. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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