pervert

Example Sentences

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Before “Dawson’s Creek” finished its six-season run, its shining star and America’s best boy had already set his sights on something else — a role that could pervert his sweet smile into a loathsome, stomach-churning grin.

From Salon

While the accused man was not charged with a crime, Ruth faced an accusation of perverting the course of justice, an offence that carries a maximum life jail term.

From BBC

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

Intensifying competition, shifting capital flows, changing alliances, and rising hostilities between superpowers were perverting typical economic and market behaviors.

From Barron's

Intensifying competition, shifting capital flows, changing alliances, and rising hostilities between superpowers were perverting typical economic and market behaviors.

From Barron's