διεστραμμένη, [2 verses](part sg perf mp fem voc/nom) "Perverse" is diastrephô, which means "turn different ways," "twist about," "turn aside," "divert," and metaphorically, "distort," and "pervert."  - "Perverse" is from a Greek verb (used in the form of an adjective) meaning "turn different ways," and "twist about," and metaphorically meant "to distort," and "to pervert." It has the same sense as the English "twisted."