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.

Other Word Forms

• unperpetrated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of perpetrated¹

perpetrate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

He said that Mr Lynch had "not only perpetrated an enormous fraud, but lied about it at every stage".

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Members of the groups are also suspected to be behind attacks perpetrated earlier this year on Marks & Spencer and other U.K. retailers, including posh department store Harrods.

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"The country has witnessed a heinous terror incident, perpetrated by anti-national forces, through a car explosion near the Red Fort", a cabinet statement read, after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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To Michael Burry, the subprime mortgage market looked increasingly like a fraud perpetrated by a handful of subprime bond trading desks.

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"This 'climate change' - it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world," he told the UN General Assembly in September.

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Related Words

• carry out 
• commit 
• execute 
• inflict 
• wreak