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He later attempted to pervert the course of justice on that date by trying to speak to a woman who was providing a witness statement to an officer.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Tolkien, a scholar of Old English, studied the “theory of courage” found in poems such as the ancient epic “Beowulf,” redeeming what he called the “noble northern spirit” from the fascists who would pervert it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Lancashire Police said 52-year-old Lisa Green - Wellings' mother - and 28-year-old Emma Croft - his girlfriend - were held on suspicion of committing an act with intent to pervert the course of public justice.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

Acting High Court of Fiji Chief Justice Salesi Temo sentenced the 70-year-old in the capital Suva on a conviction for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

He mentions twice more that he’s pissed off that I never told him about John the pervert.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

“It inverts, or you might say perverts, the assumptions at the very foundation of the justification for the free market,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024

To me, it was a little glimpse into the way that the attention economy perverts these stories.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2024

“If terrorism and violence in the name of dissent cannot be condoned, neither can violence that is officially sanctioned. Such action perverts the legal system that alone assures the survival of our traditions,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022

From this time a jealous, indignant fear of social degradation takes possession of him; and perverts, so far as aught could pervert, his private contentment, and his feelings towards his richer fellows.

From Life of Robert Burns by Thomas Carlyle

The movie projects contempt for the dense from its first frame, sharing a montage of recent pop culture as a stentorian narrator worries that modern conveniences have perverted the concept of survival of the fittest.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Mladenov has offered assurances that none of these provisions will be perverted to keep Hamas in power, and he has a team including a two-star U.S. general working to prevent that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

“That states do have the power to further their own agendas in very perverted ways.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

Even if he did think she was a perverted psychopath who wrote herself badly punctuated threats.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

Pamela Kaiga, prosecuting, said Pritchard had previously been prosecuted for perverting the course of justice with lies about her ex-husband.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

A woman was cleared of possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, and perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Thompson was also found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court of two counts of perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Joel Bodmer, who stood for selection as Labour's candidate for the Croydon East constituency, has been charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to allegedly altering phone records.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

That business in the note about “misleading and perverting the young” had been badly misunderstood and misinterpreted.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole