How to Use pervert in a Sentence
- They perverted the truth to help further their careers.
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The ruling party used all manner of dirty tricks to pervert the vote, but still lost.
—The Economist, 10 May 2018
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My daughter was not no damn pervert, as Roy Moore called her.
—Lindsey Ellefson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
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But perverting the rules of the game, well, if such a rule change made its way to the major-league level… that’d rate as a big one.
—Si.com Staff, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
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But what is achieved by perverting the intention of such clips now?
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
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Most presidents won't pervert the conduct of their office the way Trump did.
—Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
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The jury found her guilty of slavery offences and perverting the course of justice.
—The Economist, 5 July 2018
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This is an episode when everything gets perverted in a way.
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 19 July 2018
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Anything bad that’s happening to you must be because the right order of the world has been perverted.
—Mary Ann Gwinn / Lit Life Columnist, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
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And the celebrity perverts make lame art that’s honestly missable.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
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Eni denies trying to silence anyone or pervert the course of justice.
—The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
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What perverted the system was a rule that began to allow cash to flow from manufacturers to the GPOs.
—Phillip L. Zweig and, WSJ, 7 May 2018
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The danger is not only that the new left might win in the marketplace of ideas, but that conservatives will pervert their own beliefs in response.
—Bobby Jindal, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2019
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Williams said he's heard outrage from across the city, including from people who supported the power plant, about efforts to pervert the public process.
—Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 10 May 2018
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Hayden-Johnson pleaded guilty in 2009 to child cruelty and perverting the course of justice.
—Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
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Bray, who pleaded guilty in August to three counts of computer misuse and perverting the course of justice, was sentenced to 14 months at Swindon Crown Court.
—Reuters, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
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No, but this doesn’t mean interpretations of the law cannot be perverted for the purpose of prosecuting Mr. Trump.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
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Osama bin Laden and his ilk have perverted a peaceful religion, devoting it not to the salvation of souls but to the destruction of bodies.
—John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
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Jihadists have perverted this belief to serve their own ends, analysts said.
—Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 3 July 2016
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McNeil isn’t oblivious to the dark side of lurking, the way certain corners of the internet study discourses to mimic, troll, or pervert them.
—Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2020
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Or maybe the devil, perverting and distorting the work of God, had hidden himself away in the Americas to forge a deranged parody of the Christian faith.
—Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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The first protests soon erupted, with many people believing Babis was perverting the legal system to protect himself.
—Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
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The first protests soon erupted, with many people believing Mr. Babis was perverting the legal system to protect himself.
—New York Times, 23 June 2019
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And medicine, like any other profession, has its charlatans and jerks, and is certainly being perverted by the bean counters.
—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times, 11 June 2018
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But then Kaepernick’s message, as messages often do, became perverted into a debate that had nothing to do with his point.
—Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020
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But watching this man handle something that so resembled a child’s toy felt obscene, perverted.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2018
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Gray, of Sheffield, South Yorks., was charged with driving while disqualified, dangerous driving and committing an act with intent to pervert the course of justice.
—Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018
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The major social-media and tech companies have already done their share to pervert civil discourse and shatter consensus and squelch reason, all to make a buck.
—Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
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With Following Piece, Acconci perverted the notion of public art.
—Kriston Capps, The Atlantic, 3 May 2017
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As a result, some touchy old stereotypes, appropriated by whites and perverted as minstrelsy, are reclaimed and reframed.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
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My cousin takes down this pervert down for grabbing her a--.
—Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 19 July 2018
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Some have found the perfect villain in the office pervert.
—Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
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Brazil is the virgin that every foreign pervert wants to get their hands on.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2019
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More: Michigan priest: 'I was made to look like a pervert' by the Saginaw diocese.
—Andrea Perez Balderrama, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2019
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Maybe nature is strong enough to withstand its perverts.
—William Saletan, WSJ, 28 June 2018
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And at the other end of the spectrum, some people utilized the photo to underscore how Smith was a schemer and a pervert.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022
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The chief barged into the police interrogation room where the man, handcuffed to the floor, called him a pervert.
—New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
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So, rest assured, readers, writers and perverts of all stripes.
—Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 15 Aug. 2017
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In 1989, when People magazine put you on the cover, you were treated like a pervert.
—Andrew Goldman, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2022
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Richard Painter has spent much of the past 13 months calling Donald Trump a treasonous, racist pervert on cable news and Twitter.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Mar. 2018
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The story of the shifting, creative ways that shame and denial pervert our social arrangements cannot be told too many times.
—Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
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The bit continues poking fun at the production side of the show, with the pervert even getting make up and testing different lines.
—Allison Crist, Billboard, 20 May 2018
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The Rebel While activists in the ’60s battled the pernicious misconception that gay men were depraved perverts, John Waters fell in love with it.
—New York Times, 1 June 2018
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One need only practice pelvic tilts and butt lifts in front of a full-length mirror to see that, at the very least, people would give you strange looks and, at the most extreme, someone might dial 911 to report a pervert.
—Marcy Meffert, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2018
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And more importantly, the only people who actually drink out of flasks are teens at high school football games and perverts.
—Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 31 May 2018
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Both Albie and Dom view Bert as a senior pervert, with his unending attempts to flirt with any breathing woman within six inches of him.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2022
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Tseng’s resolute, playful stare at people who no doubt believed him to be a pervert and a foreign interloper is a testament to the artist’s courage.
—New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
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Others were perverts and criminals, their sense of power engorged by their victims’ weakness.
—Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2019
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Brandon is spiraling down the pervert drain to be eventually flushed out into the ocean of depravity.
—Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2022
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Abbasi seems enamored by the contradictions of Hanaei, who was at once an upstanding Muslim, a family man, a pervert and a ruthless killer.
—Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
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Faxe the Foreteller centers an amazing scene, in a high hall, surrounded by eight other proleptic figures, two of them being quite insane and one a curious male pervert.
—Harold Bloom, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020
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Infectious Diseases was a liar and pervert, the newspaper reported.
—Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
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Fighting with one another is weakening our pervert brand.
—David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
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This nighttime connection leads to a predictable crisis, with Whitman ashamed for having crossed a boundary and the defensive Wormley denouncing Whitman as a pervert.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
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Maybe the perp's parents should also be investigated...who knows what other types of videos this pervert family is collecting and selling on the internet.
—Angela Ruggiero, The Mercury News, 2 June 2017
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Once shunned as a pervert, Muruganantham is now celebrated as a visionary.
—Casey Quackenbush, Time, 7 Feb. 2018
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For decades the United Federation of Teachers has protected perverts, drunkards and other classroom miscreants from being fired.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 July 2017
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Limiting the number of victims going forward is the only way to pull a crumb of positivity from a shameful conspiracy of institutions and silence enabling a pervert’s destructive desires.
—Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 24 Jan. 2018
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My cousin takes down this pervert down for grabbing her a--.
—Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 19 July 2018
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Some have found the perfect villain in the office pervert.
—Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
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