pervert
verb (used with object)
to affect with perversion.
perverter
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a word derived from
pervert.
Example Sentences
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Accused at one time or another of being a dirty business, a brutal business, a corrupter of honest politicians, and a perverter of young men's morals, professional boxing has always managed to survive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dickens had horrified his readers by a picture of Fagin as a perverter of boyhood who taught starving waifs to steal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nature hath given two lights To this small earth for governance; But thou, perverter of eternal law, Hast turned them into everlasting streams.
From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem by Giordano Bruno
The reader can, therefore, easily judge who is the faithful advocate and who is the selfish perverter of the most splendid educational endowment that was ever made for any new country....
From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold Putnam
Indeed I began to fear lest Mr. Richard should prove altogether a perverter of my youth, and promised myself I would avoid his company henceforward, nor inquire any further after Campaspe and the rest.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
