- (of a crime, injustice, hoax, prank, etc.) committed or carried out: I concluded that the entire argument for the war might be not only dubious, but a deliberately perpetrated sham.
- (of something tasteless, false, poorly executed, etc.) presented, made, performed, etc.: This piece of unholy perpetrated music is a self-portrait of the artist as a maniac, without a trace of beauty in it.
- the simple past tense and past participle of perpetrate.
