Synonyms for pervert
pərˈvɜrt; ˈpɜr vərtper·vert

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1. pervertverb

   Antonyms:
   convert

2. pervertnoun

   To turn another way; to divert.

   Synonyms:
   veer, steer, divert

   Antonyms:
   convert

3. pervertverb

   To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt

   Synonyms:
   perv, deviant

   Antonyms:
   convert

4. pervertverb

   To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.

   pervert one's words

   Synonyms:
   misuse, misapply

5. pervertverb

   Synonyms:
   lead astray, corrupt

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   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

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

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1. pervert

   Synonyms:
   twist, distort, corrupt, falsify, misrepresent

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1. pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerateverb

   a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

   Synonyms:
   deviant, deviate, degenerate

2. corrupt, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, corrupt

3. twist, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, misuse

4. pervert, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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

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1. pervertverb

   Synonyms:
   distort, stretch, falsify, make an ill use of

2. pervertverb

   Synonyms:
   entice, tempt, corrupt

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1. pervertverb

   Synonyms:
   lead astray, corrupt, debase, vitiate, misuse, misapply, misinterpret, distort, falsify

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1. List of paraphrases for "pervert":

   perv, perverts, kinky, creepwads, perverted, pedophile, voyeur, obsessed, molester, degenerate, deviant, peeper

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How to use pervert in a sentence?

1. Denis Diderot:

   It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

2. Amanda Bouldin:

   No disrespect, but your nipple would be the last one I would want to see ... You want to turn our family beach's into a pervert show.

3. David Berkowitz Chicago:

   As in zoology, monsters exist in art. It is the pervert of the formation of words, lines, colors, and sounds.

4. John Swinton:

   There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

5. Artist Annie Jeffs:

   I'm not very happy about the invitation of a misogynist, racist, pervert to my country, he should be vilified, not invited for a visit.