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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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
"A man with the perverted and extremely dangerous views you hold should never be employed in the responsible position of a prison officer," he said.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2023
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
We rolled past the neat square of grass with its bright white bandstand, its perverted pulpit, and right on by the For Sale sign planted in front of the Kites’.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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