Diverted and Perverted

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Diverted adjective - Pleasantly occupied.

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Perverted and diverted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Perverted" instead a verb "Diverted".

Nearby Words: diversion, diverting

Perverted adjective - Having or showing lowered moral character or standards.

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Diverted and perverted are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Diverted" instead a verb "Perverted".

Nearby Words: perverse, pervert, perversion, perverting

Similarly, his "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" has "I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted too / I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you."

Source: Painful Rhyme
And George refers to his guitar (and everything else in the world) as "diverted...perverted...inverted."

Source: Ho Yay / Music
The trope has been subverted, double subverted, inverted, averted, diverted, converted, and perverted (and ridiculed, but that's nothing to be scared of).

Source: Prince Charming

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