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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 tastesplay

2. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresentedplay

3. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or goodplay

  Familiarity information: PERVERTED used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


PERVERTED (adjective)


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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