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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

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.

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

This is perverting the Humour of the Original, and, in Effect, making a xviii new Work, instead of giving only a Translation.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.

It is perverting the law of piracy to apply it to a case so entirely different.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.