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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pedophile
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But last month a Los Angeles reporter proved that pedophiles need not despair.
▪ Last year Metromail stopped providing details on children over the telephone, lest pedophiles abuse it.
▪ Some fear nudist camps, especially those that draw families with children, serve as magnates for pedophiles.
▪ Yet no one could prove suspicions that he was a pedophile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pedophile

1951, derived noun from pedophilia.

Wiktionary
pedophile

n. (cx psychiatry English) A person aged 16 years old or older who has a mental disorder that makes him primarily or exclusively sexually attracted toward prepubescent children. (from 20th c.)

WordNet
pedophile

n. an adult who is sexually attracted to children [syn: paedophile]

Usage examples of "pedophile".

Webster, an admitted pedophile, had adamantly denied ever having seen either of the boys, and all throughout the trial, had sworn his innocence, had sworn that someone else was responsible for their disappearance.

I half-suspected that if I could show him to be a pedophile, Jenovitz would simply pop in another sourball and sigh.

I had sat across the interrogation table from a variety of criminals over the years, including murderers, rapists, armed robbers, wife batterers, and pedophiles.

Drug dealers were asleep, prostitutes tired, drunk drivers sober, pedophiles returning to work, burglar alarms silent, domestic fights on hold.

It was a kidnap-murder near Stamford, Connecticut, and nearly eight months went by before they collared the bastard, a real sleazebag pedophile with a long record of molestation, child porn, the works.

Seven complaints, and in five of those the complainant was either a pedophile or a pimp dealing in child prostitution.

Then a half year later, the asshole goes and brags about it to another pedophile in a chat room.

Now you never see mobile telephones, and malls and restaurants are different, so the pedophile must manage things in some other way, in some other style.

True, as Lily Han was quick to explain, Foley had begun investigating pedophiles while off-duty, bringing forth cases unknown to his superiors.

Serial killers, pedophiles, and career killers might all be equally cold, calculating, and remorseless, but in most cases they are unquestionably sane.

He continued by saying that he had researched pedophiles and that John Ramsey did not fit the profile.

Matthews had treated several pedophiles during his days as a practicing therapist.

He’d traded them with other pedophiles while he’d been serving time for a molestation charge.

He'd traded them with other pedophiles while he'd been serving time for a molestation charge.

The man who’d sexually abused them as children, pimped them out to other pedophiles, and even put them in films.