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View synonyms for perpetrated

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.

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  • unperpetrated adjective
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After all, the vast majority of domestic extremist attacks have been perpetrated by individuals professing right-wing ideologies.

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In a statement, the embassy said: "That such an act of violence should be perpetrated on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, in a place of prayer and community, is abhorrent and deeply distressing."

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They described his body as "riddled" with bullets in a post on X, calling it a "state crime, perpetrated under the orders of Daniel Noboa."

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The president also said that climate change was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.”

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According to Findley's indictment, when the case made national headlines, she falsely claimed to Ms Keough's attorneys that a Nigerian identity thief had perpetrated the scheme.

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