Pervert
To turnanother way; to divert.
To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
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Pervert Quotations
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
P. J. O'Rourke
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski
The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Robert Toombs
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Tryon Edwards
Pervert Translations
pervert in German is pervertieren, verdrehen
pervert in Spanish is pervertido
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