Pervert
noun
A person who behaves in an immoral way, especially doing sexual things that are not normal or accepted.
He was portrayed as a pervert in the media coverage of the trial.
Often appears as...
- sexual pervert
- labelled as a pervert
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Disapproving
verb
To misuse or distort something, especially something good, for a wrong purpose or in a bad way.
She accused the government of perverting the law to its own ends.
Often appears as...
- pervert the truth
- pervert the course of justice
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Disapproving
verb
To change the original meaning or intention of something, often in a way that leads to a wrong or misleading understanding.
They have perverted the teachings of the church to serve their own purposes.
Often appears as...
- pervert the principles
- pervert the system
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who behaves in an immoral way, especially doing sexual things that are not normal or accepted.
He was portrayed as a pervert in the media coverage of the trial.
Often appears as...
- sexual pervert
- labelled as a pervert
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To misuse or distort something, especially something good, for a wrong purpose or in a bad way.
She accused the government of perverting the law to its own ends.
Often appears as...
- pervert the truth
- pervert the course of justice
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To change the original meaning or intention of something, often in a way that leads to a wrong or misleading understanding.
They have perverted the teachings of the church to serve their own purposes.
Often appears as...
- pervert the principles
- pervert the system
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word has a strong negative judgment, often related to sexual behavior society rejects.
After the scandal, he was widely regarded as a pervert.
Pro Tip 2/3Media Sensitivity
Be careful when using this term, as it can be very offensive and damaging to someone's reputation.
The newspaper was sued for wrongly branding the celebrity as a pervert.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Medical Term
'Pervert' isn't a clinical term; it’s informal and often used in a judgmental way.
Although not a clinical label, he was unfairly called a pervert by his peers.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word has a strong negative judgment, often related to sexual behavior society rejects.
After the scandal, he was widely regarded as a pervert.
Pro Tip 2/3Media Sensitivity
Be careful when using this term, as it can be very offensive and damaging to someone's reputation.
The newspaper was sued for wrongly branding the celebrity as a pervert.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Medical Term
'Pervert' isn't a clinical term; it’s informal and often used in a judgmental way.
Although not a clinical label, he was unfairly called a pervert by his peers.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word has a strong negative judgment, often related to sexual behavior society rejects.
After the scandal, he was widely regarded as a pervert.
Pro Tip 2/3Media Sensitivity
Be careful when using this term, as it can be very offensive and damaging to someone's reputation.
The newspaper was sued for wrongly branding the celebrity as a pervert.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Medical Term
'Pervert' isn't a clinical term; it’s informal and often used in a judgmental way.
Although not a clinical label, he was unfairly called a pervert by his peers.
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Video examples
Afra Raymond: Three...
Our highest institution in our country was perverted. We are dealing with perverts here of an economic and financial nature. Do you get how serious this problem is? There was massive protest. A lot of us in this room took part in the protest in different forms. Most importantly, the American embassy complained,
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David Birch: A new way...
because what happens if they turn out to be perverts and teachers and whatever?" So you have this odd sort of paradox where I'm happy for him to go into this space if I know who everybody else is, but I don't want anybody else to know who he is. And so you get this sort of logjam around identity,
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Sex Addiction PIPE Taboo
are women sex addiction is seen by many as a convenient excuse for moral weakness but evidence is building that it is real and on the rise people's sex addiction are called perverts our sleazy or you know they're given the same set of names that people who drug and
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Anna Deavere Smith: Four...
and the intensity just grew and grew and grew, until one night we came home from getting drugs, and he got angry with Myesha, and he started beating her, and he put her in a bathtub. Oh, he would use a belt. He had a belt because he had this warped perverted thing
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Why we make bad...
Nonetheless, their predictions are perverted by a comparison that then does not carry through and change their experience. You've all experienced this yourself, even if you've never come into our lab to eat potato chips. So here's a You want to buy a car stereo.
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Thomas Barnett:...
The world is my playground. I want to keep trigger-pullers trigger-happy. I want the rules to be as loose as possible. Because when the thing gets prevented in Chicago with the three million dead that perverts our political system beyond all recognition,
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Peter Eigen: How to...
And so, I became convinced that it is this systematic corruption which is perverting economic policy-making in these countries, which is the main reason for the misery, for the poverty, for the conflicts, for the violence,
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How to expose the...
projects like this and so I became convinced that it is this systemic corruption which is perverting economic policymaking in these countries which is the main reason for the misery as a poverty for the conflicts for the
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Beware conflicts of...
And he said, "Dan, what's wrong with you? Do you enjoy looking non-symmetric? Do you have some kind of perverted pleasure from this? Do women feel pity for you and have sex with you more frequently?"
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US politics isn't...
The root cause of our political dysfunction, the cause that endures across all election cycles and all administrations is the system, the perverted rules of the game,
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Afra Raymond: Three...
Our highest institution in our country was perverted. We are dealing with perverts here of an economic and financial nature. Do you get how serious this problem is? There was massive protest. A lot of us in this room took part in the protest in different forms. Most importantly, the American embassy complained,
Video examples
David Birch: A new way...
because what happens if they turn out to be perverts and teachers and whatever?" So you have this odd sort of paradox where I'm happy for him to go into this space if I know who everybody else is, but I don't want anybody else to know who he is. And so you get this sort of logjam around identity,
Video examples
Sex Addiction PIPE Taboo
are women sex addiction is seen by many as a convenient excuse for moral weakness but evidence is building that it is real and on the rise people's sex addiction are called perverts our sleazy or you know they're given the same set of names that people who drug and
Video examples
Anna Deavere Smith: Four...
and the intensity just grew and grew and grew, until one night we came home from getting drugs, and he got angry with Myesha, and he started beating her, and he put her in a bathtub. Oh, he would use a belt. He had a belt because he had this warped perverted thing
Video examples
Why we make bad...
Nonetheless, their predictions are perverted by a comparison that then does not carry through and change their experience. You've all experienced this yourself, even if you've never come into our lab to eat potato chips. So here's a You want to buy a car stereo.
Video examples
Thomas Barnett:...
The world is my playground. I want to keep trigger-pullers trigger-happy. I want the rules to be as loose as possible. Because when the thing gets prevented in Chicago with the three million dead that perverts our political system beyond all recognition,
Video examples
Peter Eigen: How to...
And so, I became convinced that it is this systematic corruption which is perverting economic policy-making in these countries, which is the main reason for the misery, for the poverty, for the conflicts, for the violence,
Video examples
How to expose the...
projects like this and so I became convinced that it is this systemic corruption which is perverting economic policymaking in these countries which is the main reason for the misery as a poverty for the conflicts for the
Video examples
Beware conflicts of...
And he said, "Dan, what's wrong with you? Do you enjoy looking non-symmetric? Do you have some kind of perverted pleasure from this? Do women feel pity for you and have sex with you more frequently?"
Video examples
US politics isn't...
The root cause of our political dysfunction, the cause that endures across all election cycles and all administrations is the system, the perverted rules of the game,
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
John Trudell
American Author
We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
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Horace Walpole
English Author
The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.
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John de Lancie
American Actor
I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.
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Helen Keller
American Author
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Evil is only good perverted.
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John Trudell
American Author
We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.
Quote examples
Holly Hunter
American Actress
Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
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Horace Walpole
English Author
The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.
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John de Lancie
American Actor
I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.
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Helen Keller
American Author
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Evil is only good perverted.
Example 1 of 10
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