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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

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 Bruno, Giordano

Gaston Cremieux, though she looked upon him as a perverter of youth, and the worst of examples for her husband, was still a guest of honour, and he had come there in my company.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Each looks on the other as a perverter of life.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)