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The rules—or lack thereof—around these blacklists don’t serve justice but pervert it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Two other people - Emma McVie, 27, and Gary Robertson 22 - also appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh and pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025

Among the other arrests was a 28-year-old woman from Kettering, who was released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 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

Either he’s still thinking about John the pervert or he’s remembering how hard it was to talk to Mom about anything.

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

“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

Fundamentally that character’s story is not one of redemption but pity for the smaller beings that corruption perverts and crushes in its quest for dominance.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

“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

And appreciate, too, that while “Selling Kabul” could have ended tragically, it instead offers some morsel of hope to all of its characters, even if it perverts reason to keep that hope alive.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

In the promulgation of economic law our interest perverts the simple and just operation of our ignorance.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

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

Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025

The combination of the value of the FBI’s criminal investigative powers together with their danger if perverted, the report added, “makes the office of FBI Director unique.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

“Because I honestly don’t want to. Besides, you ought to get a date. It will look perverted and I can’t dance.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

A British woman has been jailed for six years in Hong Kong for blackmail and perverting the course of justice after a court found she made a false allegation of rape.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Joel Bodmer, who stood for selection as Labour's candidate for the Croydon East constituency, also pleaded not guilty to a second count of perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

On Friday, South Wales Police said a man from Mountain Ash had been arrested on suspicion of preventing a lawful burial and perverting the course of justice in connection with Harris's disappearance.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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

By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, IOI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline