perpetrated

[ pur-pi-trey-tid ]

adjective

1. (of a crime, injustice, hoax, prank, etc.) committed or carried out:

   I concluded that the entire argument for the war might be not only dubious, but a deliberately perpetrated sham.

2. (of something tasteless, false, poorly executed, etc.) presented, made, performed, etc.:

   This piece of unholy perpetrated music is a self-portrait of the artist as a maniac, without a trace of beauty in it.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of perpetrate ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·per·pe·trat·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of perpetrated¹

perpetrate ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

It was perpetrated by a stranger, on my way home from school.

From Ozy

There were 351 other kinds of incidents, including imposing curfews and perpetrating physical attacks.

From No Straight News

NZX hasn’t provided details on who is perpetrating these attacks, besides noting that the attacks appear to have originated “offshore.”

From Fortune

We’ve reached a stage of acknowledging significant injustices in our society, long-term injustices that have been perpetrated.

From Freakonomics

Most of these acts of violence are perpetrated by intimate partners and family.

From No Straight News

Going forward in our war against ISIS, sadly we will likely see more gruesome acts perpetrated by them against Americans.

From The Daily Beast

Kerry, in testimony before Congress, said Barfi had been the victim of an information operation perpetrated by ISIS itself.

From The Daily Beast

It reminded her of the slaughter that the Nazis perpetrated on her relatives in the Ukraine.

From The Daily Beast

Surely it was intentional and perpetrated by Assad or ISIS or a still-unrecognized radical group.

From The Daily Beast

This is the kind of inversion of history that conservatives attack when perpetrated by the left.

From The Daily Beast

This horrid act was perpetrated by crushing their heads with two large stones, as they lay asleep on the ground.

From Project Gutenberg

He was at the time envoy to Spain, and the deed was perpetrated by six exiled royalists there.

From Project Gutenberg

The mind of the kindly, shoregoing man cannot rightly conceive the monstrosities of cruelty which were perpetrated.

From Project Gutenberg

But the youth and inexperience of Riaro excused the enormity of a crime perpetrated under the sanction of the supreme pontiff.

From Project Gutenberg

The excesses perpetrated in the country it seems did not by any means divert the attention of the persecutors from Nismes.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• carry out
• commit
• execute
• inflict
• wreak