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Ireland, of Wingate Drive, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

Tolkien, a scholar of Old English, studied the “theory of courage” found in poems such as the ancient epic “Beowulf,” redeeming what he called the “noble northern spirit” from the fascists who would pervert it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

They also all claim the state-run institution conspired with Fujitsu to pervert the course of justice by "deliberately and dishonestly" withholding evidence.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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

“Go back to the early 1800s in England, before some pervert invented machinery. What was life there?”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

“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

To bolster up this story, he perverts facts with the most reckless indifference.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

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

Des Jenson, Benguit's barrister, said that if police had coerced witnesses to lie, "it means that they have manufactured evidence, they've perverted the course of justice".

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

It’s the culture that’s skewered rather than those who adopt its perverted values.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025

“She perverted our Arcanum Elixir of Light and found a way to strip Marvellers of their gifts.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

Pamela Kaiga, prosecuting, said Pritchard had previously been prosecuted for perverting the course of justice with lies about her ex-husband.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

A fifth person, a 15-year-old girl, has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

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