perverter
- a word derived from pervert.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The King, suspecting him to be a perverter of justice, was displeased with the man, and even accused him of keeping back a complainant from interested motives.
From Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society by Crooke, William
Public feeling,—that mad perverter of probabilities,—was very much aroused against Kanu, and had that unhappy Bushman been caught it would have gone hard with him.
From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
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 Wallis, Arthur F.
