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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pervert
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
course
▪ They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
▪ Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.
▪ The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.
▪ It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.
▪ Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.
▪ But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice.
▪ Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
justice
▪ They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
▪ Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.
▪ The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.
▪ It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.
▪ Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.
▪ But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice.
▪ Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
■ VERB
attempt
▪ Mejka has denied attempting to pervert the course of justice and two offences under the Companies' Act.
▪ All six soldiers deny attempting to pervert public justice and obstructing investigations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Negative advertising is perverting the democratic process.
▪ TV sex and violence perverts the minds of young children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During 20 years of perverted worship, I wallowed in the futility of hedonism.
▪ I hope every driver who got stabbed by this perverted human being has a speedy recovery.
▪ It was no wonder that he felt heartsick over the purposes to which the glorious ship was perverted.
▪ The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She took him to court, accusing him of being a pervert who was unfit to raise a child.
▪ What are you, some kind of pervert?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises.
▪ For it was known that the Green, and other parts in the city, were the haunts of peeping-Toms and perverts.
▪ He was going to take them to court, declare them perverts, unfit to raise a child.
▪ His role of mutant son extended itself to incorporate pervert as well.
▪ It provides cheap entertainment for illiterate people and perverts.
▪ The sentences meted out to the seven perverts who downloaded pornographic images of children as young as three months were laughable.
▪ You don't know what a pervert is, I suppose.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pervert

Pervert \Per*vert"\, v. i. To become perverted; to take the wrong course. [R.]
--Testament of Love.

Pervert

Pervert \Per"vert\, n. One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.

That notorious pervert, Henry of Navarre.
--Thackeray.

Pervert

Pervert \Per*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Perverting.] [F. pervertir, L. pervertere, perversum; per + vertere to turn. See Per-, and Verse.]

  1. To turnanother way; to divert. [Obs.]

    Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
    --Shak.

  2. To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
    --Dryden.

    He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pervert

c.1300 (transitive), "to turn someone aside from a right religious belief to a false or erroneous one," from Old French pervertir "pervert, undo, destroy" (12c.) and directly from Latin pervertere "overthrow, overturn," figuratively "to corrupt, subvert, abuse," literally "turn the wrong way, turn about," from per- "away" (see per) + vertere "to turn" (see versus).\n

\nRelated: Perverted; perverting. Replaced native froward, which embodies the same image. Old English had mishweorfed "perverted, inverted," an identical formation to the Latin word using native elements.

pervert

1660s, "one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true, apostate," from pervert (v.). Psychological sense of "one who has a perversion of the sexual instinct" is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis), originally especially of homosexuals.

Wiktionary
pervert

n. 1 (context dated English) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals. 2 A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To turn another way; to divert. 2 (context transitive English) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt.

WordNet
pervert
  1. n. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior [syn: deviant, deviate, degenerate]

  2. v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]

  3. practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive [syn: twist, twist around, convolute, sophisticate]

  4. change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers" [syn: misuse, abuse]

Wikipedia
Pervert (album)

Pervert is the first album released by American stand-up comedian Phil Mazo.

Usage examples of "pervert".

Jay had never met an Edenist, although back at the arcology Father Varhoos had warned the congregation about them and their soulless technology of perverted life.

He thinks he knows that the outburst last fall was caused by New York Communists, beatnik perverts and other godless elements beyond his ken.

Now and then he messes behind his closed door with one or another of the peipis, the perverted boy inmates who drift through the blocks.

With head and hearts perverted by monkish superstition and Spanish tyranny, yet set on fire by the French Revolution, what did they know of liberty!

We assume Myros has assured him that such would be the case under his overlordship, so a prating pissant supports a pernicious pervert.

In a word, they will argue, all particularity in desires and even in perverted judgements upon things, can be referred to such causes, so that Evil lies in this Form much more than in the mere Matter.

After he admitted on national television to engaging in pedophilia, in the hopes that his confession would convince the authorities that the Family should be investigated, his plan backfired and he was depicted as a pervert by the cool, calm, and well-trained Family public relations men.

It was there that he recruited participants for his amateur pornographic videos, there that he encouraged his wife to expand her list of clients, there that he would listen on the intercom system while she made love, or peep through the holes he had cut in the doors to watch, and there, too, that he would indulge his passion for perverted sexuality.

At thirty-five, Lilliphane had a well honed appetite for sex, having already had three husbands, including the present perverted Eldred, who seemed only able to achieve orgasm when ramming himself into her back passage.

They rigidified the codification of sex and gender, labeling those who dared to deviate from these codes or even fantasize about something different perverts and hysterics.

I have a hazy recollection of a rumpled and unshaven Colonel Stiet striding up and down past our beds, loudly denouncing us as perverts and saying we would all be dishonorably discharged for having unnatural relations.

But here it must be noted that this transvection offers a difficulty, which has often been mentioned, arising from one single authority, where it is said: It cannot be admitted as true that certain wicked women, perverted by Satan and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of devils, do actually, as they believe and profess, ride in the night-time on certain beasts with Diana, a goddess of the Pagans, or with Herodias and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the untimely silence of night pass over immense tracts of land, and have to obey her in all things as their Mistress, etc.

The asps were created in laboratory animals and would never have been applied to human beings, had not a man with a desire to control and revenge perverted it to this end.

This, or so Blade reckoned now, would satisfy the blood lust of the people and Beata could call it off when she would, and save Blade and the princess for other things-Blade for her perverted pleasures, Taleen for ransom and power over her hated brother Voth.

If Boardman could have his way he would automatically charge all briefs with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice simply for belonging to the profession they did.