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  • adverb In a perverted, twisted, or corrupt manner.

Etymologies

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From perverted +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • Wow is it me or is it that people are thinking pervertedly?

    Twilight Lexicon » Movie News 2008

  • And the torturer pervertedly cares, or he would refuse the assignment, which would expose him to little personal liability in that his masters themselves are cowardly that any threat to him might result in their own exposure as depraved and even – in morally enlightened societies – legally culpable.

    Torture: Who Could Care? 2009

  • It was so completely obvious he wanted them to piss off, especially Leah who was pressing her big fake boobs on his head and stroking him pervertedly.

    calmish Diary Entry calmish 2006

  • KING: This may be pervertedly sad to say -- terrorism successfully?

    CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2002 2002

  • What then did I love in that theft? and wherein did I even corruptly and pervertedly imitate my Lord?

    The Confessions 1999

  • Thus all pervertedly imitate Thee, who remove far from Thee, and lift themselves up against Thee.

    The Confessions 1999

  • Indians, a phrase I use pervertedly because that is the kind of remark you can still hear in Trinidad: apart from the

    Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture 1997

  • All things thus imitate thee -- but pervertedly -- when they separate themselves far from thee and raise themselves up against thee.

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • There is something terribly, if pervertedly logical in this reasoning, and although nothing could be farther from the attitude of the ordinary delinquent, it is no doubt more dangerous to the peace and continuance of society; and such was the attitude and the reasoning which rendered the

    A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith

  • But this outcast from society, who has set out pervertedly to dominate the world, at least knows that he must fight to win or he and his people will go under.

    Hitler Holds All Europe 1941

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