pedophile

[ ped-uh-fahyl or, esp. British, pee-duh- ]

/ ˈpɛd əˌfaɪl or, esp. British, ˈpi də- /

an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.

Nearby words

Also especially British, pae·do·phile [pee-duh-fahyl] /ˈpi dəˌfaɪl/. Also pedophiliac.

1950–55; pedo-¹ + -phile, or directly < Greek paidóphilos ‘loving children’

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He alleges that a third boy, aged 10 or 11, was deliberately hit by a car and killed by a member of the pedophile network in 1979.
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The Vatican says it is doing everything it can to take pedophile priests out of circulation.
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ROME, Italy — Roderick MacDonald has been proven to be the worst kind of pedophile there is—an apologetic serial offender.
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In court, Kimberlin was both outraged at the “pedophile” claims and slippery about whether they were defamatory.
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