perverted
Americanadjective
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Pathology. changed to or being of an unnatural or abnormal kind.
a perverted interest in death.
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turned from what is right; wicked; misguided; distorted.
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affected with or caused by perversion.
adjective
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deviating greatly from what is regarded as normal or right; distorted
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of or practising sexual perversion
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incorrectly interpreted
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Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025
Corker also perverted another protest slogan into an attack on workers by declaring, “the whole world is watching.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024
“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024
That Romantic view of the German landscape would, a century later, be perverted by totalitarian ideology — a legacy taken up by the young Anselm Kiefer in his much-debated “Occupations” photographs, from 1969.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
He noticed Gibbon’s acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello’s love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago’s perverted love of Othello.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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