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Stewart and the 15-year-old also face other charges which include attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

The rules—or lack thereof—around these blacklists don’t serve justice but pervert it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Lancashire Police said 52-year-old Lisa Green - Wellings' mother - and 28-year-old Emma Croft - his girlfriend - were held on suspicion of committing an act with intent to pervert the course of public justice.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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

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

Perhaps Charles Lamb’s famous saying, that recitation perverts a beautiful poem, would have been qualified had some poem been read to him with full recognition of its artistic character.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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

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

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

A British woman has been jailed for six years in Hong Kong for blackmail and perverting the course of justice after a court found she made a false allegation of rape.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Thompson was also found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court of two counts of perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

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