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pervert

[per-vurt, pur-vert] / pərˈvɜrt, ˈpɜr vərt /
NOUN
person who lacks morals
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Two others were sentenced alongside Hunter after previously pleading guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

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

When publications can’t simply die, when they’re forced to roam the Earth in search of salvation, they pervert the very thing they were once trying to accomplish.

From Slate Mar. 11, 2024

“Go back to the early 1800s in England, before some pervert invented machinery. What was life there?”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

“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

It wasn’t social satire or commentary on the lifestyle we’d all been living since March 2020: The Circle was, is, and always will be just a fun experiment in how social media perverts authenticity.

From Slate May 5, 2021

But again that onesided aristocratic strain perverts his ethics.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

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

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

From Salon Sep. 28, 2025

Corker also perverted another protest slogan into an attack on workers by declaring, “the whole world is watching.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

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

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

From BBC Sep. 2, 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




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