Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who perverts, or turns from right to wrong; one who distorts, misinterprets, misapplies, or corrupts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who perverts (a person or thing).

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  • noun One who perverts (a person or thing).

Etymologies

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pervert +‎ -er

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Examples

  • In veterinary circles the meat dispenser was relished as a rather daring "perverter," while hundreds of smart people began to enjoy their _pseudo_-beef.

    The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

  • Cocoa-Tree, made helplessly tipsy by this abominable seducer and perverter of youth, and fleeced of four thousand pounds.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason, and when thou art most sure that thou art employed about things worth thy pains, it is then that it cheats thee most.

    The Meditations 2004

  • A barrel-organ of execution; a perverter of taste; a worthy ally of that upstart who ruined melody, harmony, and form.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • But tell me, thou perverter of the squirely rules of knight – errantry, where hast thou ever seen or read that any knight – errant's squire made terms with his lord, 'you must give me so much a month for serving you'?

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Corah and his accomplices did accuse Moses of being ambitious, unjust, and tyrannical; when the Pharisees called our Lord an impostor, a blasphemer, a sorcerer, a glutton and wine-bibber, an incendiary and perverter of the people, one that spake against

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • But here, when my reputation and the reputation of my innocent children are at stake, I am proved beyond doubt, and by respectable witnesses, to be a wilful falsifier and perverter of the truth.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

  • I felt persuaded from the first that the assassins would aim only at Mr. Burke, who has long been regarded as the perverter of every Viceroy and

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • Since our study is not a pathological treatise, we must omit further consideration of the offender and dismiss without more comment the whole range of the perverter.

    The Foundations of Personality 1921

  • She knew how the unhappy Lord Dovedale, whose mamma had taken a house at Oxford, so that he might be educated there, and who had never touched a card in his life till he came to London, was perverted by Rawdon at the Cocoa-Tree, made helplessly tipsy by this abominable seducer and perverter of youth, and fleeced of four thousand pounds.

    XIX. Miss Crawley at Nurse 1917

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