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- noun Plural form of
perverter .
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Examples
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Father Charles Coughlin inaugurated his fall radio season this afternoon with a full-throated attack on the Liberty League and other cowardly "perverters" of financial ruin.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics Greg Mitchell 2010
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Father Charles Coughlin inaugurated his fall radio season this afternoon with a full-throated attack on the Liberty League and other cowardly "perverters" of financial ruin.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches from Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics Greg Mitchell 2010
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Father Charles Coughlin inaugurated his fall radio season this afternoon with a full-throated attack on the Liberty League and other cowardly "perverters" of financial ruin.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics Greg Mitchell 2010
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The Nobla Leyçon, -- the Confession of Faith of the Vaudois Church, of the date of 1100, -- claims on their behalf the same ancient origin; Ecbert, a writer who flourished in 1160 -- the year of Peter Waldo -- speaks of them as "perverters," who had existed during many ages; and Reinerus, the inquisitor, who lived a century afterwards, calls them the most dangerous of all sects, because the most ancient;
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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The author scoffs at Jewish scholars as “curious wranglers, ingenious cabalists, fine splitters of hair, shrewd perverters of texts, sharp detectors of discrepancies, clever concocters of analogies.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Shun all the torturers and torture enablers, and shun the perverters of law and justice.
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The author scoffs at Jewish scholars as “curious wranglers, ingenious cabalists, fine splitters of hair, shrewd perverters of texts, sharp detectors of discrepancies, clever concocters of analogies.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Addressing the specific language to confront those who are perverting Islam is far more helpful to us infidels and presumably to the perverters themselves than summarily dismissing any criticism.
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But it is appalling when a serious patriot like McCain is forced to fall into line with these radical perverters of language, one of the most dangerous things that can happen in a democracy, in order to lead a party that is so far off the mainstream rails that it will take decades to return to civility and normality.
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Why then would he, a combat veteran, a courageous prisoner of war, permit himself to be captive to the perverters of language?
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