pervert
verb (used with object)
to affect with perversion.
had perverted
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past perfectof pervert.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“It had perverted what was meant to be a sacred, holiday gathering,” he said, adding that it was painful to learn that the suspect was Asian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
“It had perverted what was meant to be a sacred, holiday gathering in celebration of the new year,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
This alone caused a civil war in the late seventh century, as some of their Muslim subjects rose up, claiming that they had perverted the proper line of leadership in the community.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
According to Gruen, “Promoters and speculators who just wanted to make a fast buck” had perverted his vision by ditching the community-oriented features, like libraries and doctors’ offices, that he’d suggested.
From Salon ● May 18, 2017
Guizot was a great man, but '48 had perverted his generalising intellect, and everywhere his jaundiced vision perceived in progress a struggle for life and death with 'the revolutionary spirit, blind, chimerical, insatiate, impracticable.'
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
