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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

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

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

"These are wholesome desires the poultry industry perverts into something that ends up harming animals."

From Salon ● May 10, 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

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

Man holds in his thought the idea of diseased and abnormal functioning and conditions, and so perverts the action of the Principle of Health, causing diseased and abnormal functioning and conditions within his own body.

From The Science of Being Well by Wallace Delois Wattles

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

Des Jenson, Benguit's barrister, said that if police had coerced witnesses to lie, "it means that they have manufactured evidence, they've perverted the course of justice".

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

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

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025

And Ben came with momentum, driven by fear as he entered the kitchen as a footsoldier bound by the rites of a perverted chivalry written into the family’s history.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

A fifth person, a 15-year-old girl, has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

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

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