perverted
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- adjective
- /pərˈvɜːrtɪd/
- Formal
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distorsionado
- Many people believe that the media often presents a perverted view of reality through biased reporting.
- perverted truth
- perverted idea
- perverted interpretation
Examples
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Republicans, especially political figures, value individualism, true enough, but in a perverted and distorted way.
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We have to stand up, be counted, and change a perverted system that lets us carry guns to school but forbids us to pray there.
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Only now, it has a more perverted quality.
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In a certain perverted way, you are right.
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And so when you measure things in dollars, because the unit of measure is perverted, it loses value over time.
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But seriously, how would that not be a perverted understanding of the concept of compatibility?
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Steele says that virtuous struggle of the civil rights era was perverted to serve the needs of white Americans.
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High-stakes tests and the perverted notion that we can test students into proficiency are the real problem.
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Al-Qaeda has long used a perverted interpretation of the Qur'an to proselytize among secular, illiterate, and disenfranchised Iraqis.
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All of Giroux's arguments for placing racial identity at the center of personal identity feed right into a central factor retarding academic achievement among blacks and Latinos: the perverted notion that doing well in school is "acting white," another idea Lester Maddox and David Duke would love.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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Changed on purpose to make people believe something untrue
Changed from the original meaning so it makes people believe something wrong
Shown in a false way that gives people the wrong idea
Antonyms
How Distorted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word perverted comes from per- ('completely') and vert ('turn'), which gives the image of something 'turned away' from its true form. That's why a perverted translation or story is one that has been changed so it no longer shows the original meaning.