is perverting
- present progressive of pervert (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Encroachment by civilization is perverting the wilderness just as man is being perverted in response to the environment he's made for himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Gardner speaks of it as "the secret cause of much that is perverting the energies and demoralizing the minds of many of our fairest and best."
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
Another kind is, perverting a man's words or actions disadvantageously by affected misconstruction.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
No man likes his mother-in-law to say that he has married the keeper of an Italian eating-house, especially if the fact is correct; or that he is perverting his young children's trust money.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.
I show, cleverly passing from chaos to the Olympic games, that Socrates is perverting the youth.
From Socrates by Morlock, Frank J.
