Pervert

/ˈpəː.vəːt/ · noun

Meaning

(dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals.
2. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
3. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
4. (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
5. To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
6. to misinterpret designedly.
7. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

Example Sentences

And yet it is not only tolerated, but perverts are making to it in England and this country, — perverts among the intelligent and the learned. For these things, which I have quoted, are not accusations made in a corner, but have been published in the face of the world by one of the profoundest theologians of the day, and challenge confutation.

[…] a religious pervert is ever a doubtful product. One separated from the fellows of his youth and the faith of his fathers, by acceptance of a different religion, is of necessity more or less adrift on the sea of life […]

According to the Holy Qur'an, those who cast off God's signs and follow Satan and their caprice are perverts; they are likened to dogs […]

Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!

I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.

Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.

How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?

He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.

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• perverts
• perverting
• perverted

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