What are some opposite words for pervert?
Antonyms for pervert
pərˈvɜrt; ˈpɜr vərtper·vert
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pervertverb
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convertpervertnoun
To turn another way; to divert.
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convertpervertverb
To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt
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convertpervertverb
To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
pervert one's words
pervertverb
Synonyms:
lead astray, corrupt
English Synonyms and Antonyms
pervert
Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.
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applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicateSynonyms:
abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pervert
Synonyms:
twist, distort, corrupt, falsify, misrepresent
Princeton's WordNet
pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerateverb
a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
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deviant, deviate, degeneratecorrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirectverb
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
"debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
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subvert, bring down, mislead, overthrow, alloy, misguide, twist, impair, misaddress, abuse, deflower, demoralise, cloud, misdirect, weaken, get down, debase, counteract, demoralize, sully, convolute, vitiate, profane, deject, lead astray, defile, desecrate, sophisticate, sabotage, load, countermine, mar, taint, overturn, stretch, invalidate, deprave, adulterate, dilute, twist around, undermine, buy, violate, grease one's palms, outrage, cast down, void, dispirit, depress, bribe, misuse, dismay, debauch, spoil, corrupttwist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticateverb
practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
"Don't twist my words"
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bend, wriggle, doctor up, wrick, doctor, wind, deform, twist, abuse, demoralise, rick, misdirect, debase, worm, demoralize, flex, convolute, writhe, profane, wrench, turn, sophisticate, convolve, subvert, vitiate, sprain, curve, deprave, twist around, corrupt, twine, distort, wrestle, squirm, debauch, misusepervert, misuse, abuseverb
change the inherent purpose or function of something
"Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
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sophisticate, shout, vitiate, deprave, debauch, twist, ill-use, blackguard, twist around, subvert, misapply, profane, step, corrupt, debase, misdirect, demoralise, convolute, maltreat, misuse, abuse, demoralize, clapperclaw, ill-treat, mistreat
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
pervertverb
Synonyms:
lead astray, corrupt, debase, vitiate, misuse, misapply, misinterpret, distort, falsify
How to use pervert in a sentence?
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
So my concern on that is as you do this over time, you continue to pervert the news cycle, right? let's take this so-called controversy over critical race theory. And I say ‘so-called controversy’ because it's sort of- it's a creation… It's a faux controversy that's being ginned up. And I guess it just gets attention. It keeps people watching or it keeps people clicking or, you know, all of that. That's the concern.
I believe as long as students had equal access to the room it’s not a First Amendment issue, i believe we really as conservatives need to be careful that we don’t pervert the First Amendment like liberals do to use it for their own agenda.
The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert it!
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.
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