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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

A 29-year-old man from Slough, arrested on Thursday on suspicion of assisting an offender and attempting to pervert the course of justice, has been released on bail, until 15 August.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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

"Nah, you just got me mad, that's all. You were calling me a pervert, remember? And I didn't want you to think that."

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

“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

To me, it was a little glimpse into the way that the attention economy perverts these stories.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 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

If a straight statute will not catch the intended victims he perverts it to a hook and therewith lays hold.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

The movie projects contempt for the dense from its first frame, sharing a montage of recent pop culture as a stentorian narrator worries that modern conveniences have perverted the concept of survival of the fittest.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

The combination of the value of the FBI’s criminal investigative powers together with their danger if perverted, the report added, “makes the office of FBI Director unique.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

One of the former senior staff was re-arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in April but no charges have been brought.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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

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

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