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pervert

[per-vurt, pur-vert] / pərˈvɜrt, ˈpɜr vərt /
NOUN
person who lacks morals
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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

Stewart and the 15-year-old also face other charges which include attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From BBC May 21, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 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

“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

“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

"They need protection from perverts like you," echoed conservative author Michael Malice.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2022

Ambition perverts the love between parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2022

The mirror neither hides nor perverts; it reflects evil qualities as faithfully as good; it is the emblem of honesty and purity.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

It’s the culture that’s skewered rather than those who adopt its perverted values.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2025

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

From Seattle Times Apr. 10, 2024

That Romantic view of the German landscape would, a century later, be perverted by totalitarian ideology — a legacy taken up by the young Anselm Kiefer in his much-debated “Occupations” photographs, from 1969.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2023

Many have commended her for speaking out, and have condemned the "arrogance" of her blackmailer, and his "perverted" behaviour.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2023

“She perverted our Arcanum Elixir of Light and found a way to strip Marvellers of their gifts.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

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

Last month a senior healthcare boss who worked at the Countess of Chester was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and bailed by police.

From BBC May 13, 2026

A high-ranking police officer is being investigated for allegedly perverting the course of justice in connection with legal action brought by a woman who sought video footage of her arrest.

From BBC May 1, 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




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