Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To be responsible for; commit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To do execute, or perform; commit: generally in a bad sense: as, to
perpetrate a crime. - To produce, as something execrable or shocking; perform (something) in an execrable or shocking way: as, to
perpetrate a pun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
be guilty of, orresponsible for acrime etc; tocommit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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What a comment on our culture when people "perpetrate" themselves in order to claim victimhod.
This was totally... Ann Althouse 2007
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I speak not merely of obscurities, to perpetrate which is in every sense to stand in one's own light, but of sheer fatuities, tweakings-of-the-nose to our reverend mother-tongue, as either might have expressed it.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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When we don't, we either ignore injustice or perpetrate injustice because the victims are not seen as humans, but rather as what Martin Buber called "it."
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Put A Little Love In Your Heart: Jewish Wisdom For Global Healing Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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An article in Popular Mechanics suggests some historical absurdities which future authors may attempt to perpetrate on the gullible public.
March 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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When we don't, we either ignore injustice or perpetrate injustice because the victims are not seen as humans, but rather as what Martin Buber called "it."
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Put A Little Love In Your Heart: Jewish Wisdom For Global Healing Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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When we don't, we either ignore injustice or perpetrate injustice because the victims are not seen as humans, but rather as what Martin Buber called "it."
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Put A Little Love In Your Heart: Jewish Wisdom For Global Healing Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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The cyberpunk is usually an outsider * not* of his/her own choosing, but because the structure of society is inherently unfair and favors the rich (who usually have to intentionally buy into or perpetrate the evils of society to get that way, ala the Bush Administration or, well, the 80s, when the genre was at its height.)
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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House of Representatives and pretty much misrepresented her and any resident of his district sociallly to the left of Savanarola while helping to perpetrate the now-classic Reaganite Republican big con of voting for tax cuts for the rich and policies that screwed over the working class residents of his district whose interests, he swore, he was protecting by selling them out.
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Do you actually suggest that one is obliged to imagine all the specific violations that all organizations might perpetrate against them, and then go searching the internet to see if that particular violation has already be found out?
Verizon Data-Sharing Hysteria Points to Larger Privacy Issues 2009
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When we don't, we either ignore injustice or perpetrate injustice because the victims are not seen as humans, but rather as what Martin Buber called "it."
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Put A Little Love In Your Heart: Jewish Wisdom For Global Healing Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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