(used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes
<adj.all> kinky sex perverted practices
having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
<adj.all> many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality a perverted translation of the poem
deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
<adj.all> depraved criminals a perverted sense of loyalty the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat
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 turnanother way; to divert. [Obs.]
Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath. --Shak.
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 designedly; as, to pervert one's words. --Dryden.
He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve. --Milton.
From his book you get a very strong sense of art perverted by politics.
"It is absolutely the most perverted, distorted account of the historical and biblical Jesus I have ever read," says Wildmon, a United Methodist minister.
The parties reportedly featured awards for the most perverted partygoer and to the man who procured the most women.
Experts concluded that the cult practiced a perverted form of the Afro-Cuban religion Palo Mayombe, in which believers use human bones, but don't normally kill people to get them.
"It was like a perverted Memorial Day parade," said a dumbfounded Treasury Department officer who witnessed the march from his post at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Many of the calls were generated through an appeal by the conservative Moral Majority, which called the measure "a perverted law" that could force churches to hire "a practicing active homosexual drug addict with AIDS to be a teacher or youth pastor."