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  • "Hi, I'm Connie. And I don't want you going through my things in my room. You got that?" ... [she] wore a minidress. I couldn't help myself as I stared up at her legs. Connie stepped back, and her face turned red. "Mom, he's a little pervert!"  (source)
  • But your feelings got hurt, so you started spreading lies, and now every girl in school is talking about me like I'm some kind of pervert.  (source)
  • A way to catch this pervert in the act.  (source)
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  • I thought you were some guy, some pervert who'd … and then when you didn't break down the door or anything . . .  (source)
    pervert = someone who likes sexual practices considered unacceptable by society
  • Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and amplification of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber.  (source)
    perversion = the conversion of something so it is not what it should be
  • Only at night, with their flashlights, looking for godless perverts.†  (source)
    perverts = (noun) people who like sexual practices considered unacceptable by society  OR  (verb) converts something so it is not what it should be
  • By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, ICI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest.†  (source)
  • That my dreams were perversions.†  (source)
    perversions = things that have been converted so they are not what they should be
  • 23:13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 23:14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: 23:15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.†  (source)
    perverteth = converts something so it is not what it should be
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It perverteth" in older English, today we say "It perverts."
  • 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.†  (source)
    perverter = someone who converts something so it is not what it should be
  • "She's scary in that sort of sexy-older-woman way." "You pervert."  (source)
    pervert = (noun) someone who likes sexual practices considered unacceptable by society  OR  (verb) to convert something so it is not what it should be
  • The Hieros Gamos ritual is not a perversion.†  (source)
  • She saw churches as breeding grounds for perverts and money changers.†  (source)
    perverts = (noun) people who like sexual practices considered unacceptable by society  OR  (verb) converts something so it is not what it should be
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