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

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

Tolkien, a scholar of Old English, studied the “theory of courage” found in poems such as the ancient epic “Beowulf,” redeeming what he called the “noble northern spirit” from the fascists who would pervert it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Two others were sentenced alongside Hunter after previously pleading guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 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

"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

“The financial incentive of it kind of perverts the idea of informed consent a little bit,” he says.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2021

Imperfect knowledge perverts the noblest sentiments; widened and perfected knowledge strengthens their power.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

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

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

“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

Even if he did think she was a perverted psychopath who wrote herself badly punctuated threats.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

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

Joel Bodmer, 40, who stood for selection as Labour's candidate for the Croydon East constituency, has been charged with perverting the court of justice in relation to allegedly altering phone records.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

The man, who cannot be named, was arrested, but within hours Rose was charged with blackmail and later a further charge of perverting the course of public justice.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

That business in the note about “misleading and perverting the young” had been badly misunderstood and misinterpreted.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole