Word Finder - pervert

definition

One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.

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A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

example

Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!

synonyms

• perv

definition

To turn another way; to divert.

synonyms

• divert
• steer
• veer

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To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure

example

How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?

synonyms

• corrupt
• lead astray

definition

To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose

example

He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain.

synonyms

• misapply
• misuse

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To misinterpret designedly.

example

pervert one's words

synonyms

• twist

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To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

Wealth, popularity and power tend to dethrone the authority of reason and to pervert the soul from the natural to the artificial.

Now I feel like a proper dirty old pervert.

That interpretation does not pervert or bend the words of the decision.

Feeling like 20 kinds of pervert for doing it, he hoped to at least be spared undressing her further.

The Johnson's were good people and it wasn't their fault their son was a little pervert.

It's no wonder they thought you were a pervert if you were sitting on a bus feeling a prat.

Polycarp, for instance, speaks of " those who pervert the oracles of the Lord " (Philipp. 7), and Papias, as Eusebius tells us, wrote a work with the title " Expositions of the Oracles 6f the Lord."

Some defense attorney is trying to subpoena her to get his pervert off.

The gals from an New England village dealing with a visiting sex pervert getting his willy out in front of their kids.

In fact, it obeys every rule of the slasher movie that Scream ' s horror geeks abuse, pervert and worship.

The whole legend of Peter is an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the first crusade - an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the idolizations " of the different camps (idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon), soon developed into a regular saga.

And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the book of hearts shall be opened, I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice, howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuse of the times."

For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is antichrist; and whosoever shall not confess the testimony of the Cross is of the devil; and whosoever shall pervert the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts and say that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, that man is the first-born of Satan.