PERVERT in a Sentence

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For PERVERT, below is one of 11 sentences:
The first man is a holy fool who loves animals, the second a razor-thin opportunist, and the third an obese pervert.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERVERT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pervert
 v.  cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; corrupt; bring to a bad or worse condition
Classic Sentence:
1  At first this vague and terrible power was exercised only upon the recalcitrants who, having embraced the Mormon faith, wished afterwards to pervert or to abandon it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
2  You had begun to pervert my poor Felton.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
3  As touching reasons, it may be pleaded for the Roman method, that they are most fit to have charge of a thing, who least desire to pervert it to their own ends.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
4  Catherine had an awfully perverted taste to esteem him so dearly, knowing him so well.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  And his encounter with old Mistress Hibbins, if it were a real incident, did but show its sympathy and fellowship with wicked mortals, and the world of perverted spirits.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
6  This perverted child-man was now a real business-man; when it was a question of affairs, he was an absolute he-man, sharp as a needle, and impervious as a bit of steel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence:
1  As he was charged for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, detectives arrived at the house, taking him into custody at 5.45 p.m.
2  The first man is a holy fool who loves animals, the second a razor-thin opportunist, and the third an obese pervert.
3  Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
4  Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign.
5  Some scientific discoveries have been perverted to create weapons of destruction.