How to Use pervert in a Sentence

pervert

1 of 2 verb

• They perverted the truth to help further their careers.
• The ruling party used all manner of dirty tricks to pervert the vote, but still lost.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• My daughter was not no damn pervert, as Roy Moore called her.
  — Lindsey Ellefson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• 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
• But what is achieved by perverting the intention of such clips now?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
• Most presidents won't pervert the conduct of their office the way Trump did.
  — Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• The jury found her guilty of slavery offences and perverting the course of justice.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• This is an episode when everything gets perverted in a way.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 19 July 2018
• 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
• And the celebrity perverts make lame art that’s honestly missable.
  — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
• Eni denies trying to silence anyone or pervert the course of justice.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hayden-Johnson pleaded guilty in 2009 to child cruelty and perverting the course of justice.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jihadists have perverted this belief to serve their own ends, analysts said.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 3 July 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But watching this man handle something that so resembled a child’s toy felt obscene, perverted.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• With Following Piece, Acconci perverted the notion of public art.
  — Kriston Capps, The Atlantic, 3 May 2017
• 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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pervert

2 of 2 noun

• My cousin takes down this pervert down for grabbing her a--.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• Some have found the perfect villain in the office pervert.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
• Brazil is the virgin that every foreign pervert wants to get their hands on.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2019
• More: Michigan priest: 'I was made to look like a pervert' by the Saginaw diocese.
  — Andrea Perez Balderrama, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2019
• Maybe nature is strong enough to withstand its perverts.
  — William Saletan, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• So, rest assured, readers, writers and perverts of all stripes.
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 15 Aug. 2017
• In 1989, when People magazine put you on the cover, you were treated like a pervert.
  — Andrew Goldman, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Others were perverts and criminals, their sense of power engorged by their victims’ weakness.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2019
• Brandon is spiraling down the pervert drain to be eventually flushed out into the ocean of depravity.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Infectious Diseases was a liar and pervert, the newspaper reported.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Fighting with one another is weakening our pervert brand.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Once shunned as a pervert, Muruganantham is now celebrated as a visionary.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 7 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• My cousin takes down this pervert down for grabbing her a--.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• Some have found the perfect villain in the office pervert.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024