pervert
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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
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
Either he’s still thinking about John the pervert or he’s remembering how hard it was to talk to Mom about anything.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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“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
Fundamentally that character’s story is not one of redemption but pity for the smaller beings that corruption perverts and crushes in its quest for dominance.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
“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
Ambition perverts the love between parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
But again that onesided aristocratic strain perverts his ethics.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
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
The officer is alleged to have perverted the course of justice, but police said no arrests had been made.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It’s the culture that’s skewered rather than those who adopt its perverted values.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
He noticed Gibbon’s acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello’s love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago’s perverted love of Othello.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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In 2000, Archer was charged with perjury and perverting the course of justice.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Thompson was also found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court of two counts of perverting the course of justice.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
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
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Vocabulary lists containing pervert
Antigone, Lines 710–1500
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Vocabulary from Readings 4, Unit 4
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