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All the defendants deny the charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 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

He couldn’t risk Mr. Turner catching him hanging around the girls’ room as though he was some kind of pervert or something.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

“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

Offering such glints of transcendence at the edge of an ugly killing, Melchor creates a narrative that not only decries an atrocity but embodies the beauty and vitality it perverts.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2020

With the flesh the spirit must wage perpetual war, as the alien power which cramps its native energies, darkens its vision, and perverts its judgment of the truth.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill

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

The officer is alleged to have perverted the course of justice, but police said no arrests had been made.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

“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

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

Their mother, Easther McCook, 51, was sentenced to two years, suspended for three years, for perverting the course of justice by providing false alibis for her sons.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

The brothers, of Bolam Drive in Ashington, were both charged with perverting the course of justice on 28 July last year.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

Hong Kong police first arrested the man, but within hours released him and arrested Rose, charging her with blackmail and later with perverting the course of public justice.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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