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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes;
- Example: "kinky sex"
- Example: "perverted practices"
[syn: kinky, perverted]

2. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented;
- Example: "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"
- Example: "a perverted translation of the poem"
[syn: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted]

3. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good;
- Example: "depraved criminals"
- Example: "a perverted sense of loyalty"
- Example: "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
[syn: depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pervert \Per*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Perverting.] [F. pervertir, L. pervertere, perversum; per + vertere to turn. See Per-, and Verse.] 1. To turn another way; to divert. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret intentionally; as, to pervert one's words. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

perverted adj 1: (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices" [syn: kinky, perverted] 2: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted] 3: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate]