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
They complied with his request by depriving the Princess of Hohenzollern, the supposed perverter of Louise, of all her privileges at Bergen.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
The victim is callous to the sentiments of honour and shame, insensible to the most palpable distinctions of right and wrong, a systematic opponent of testimony and obstinate perverter of truth.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
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
