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  • 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
  • And then they showed the back of you as you walked with that interview lady, and I've watched you walk away enough to know what you look like from the back, and ...I sound like a pervert, don't I?†   (source)
  • That my dreams were perversions.†   (source)
  • To pervert and defile the only thing that has ever made our lives bearable?†   (source)
  • A newly discovered photograph of Watanabe had been copied and distributed, along with a report that described him as a man "known to have perversions" who might be found "wherever there are loose women."†   (source)
  • Only at night, with their flashlights, looking for godless perverts.†   (source)
  • At her brother's funeral a few years earlier, Mamaw and her niece Denise convinced themselves that one of the pallbearers was a pervert, so they broke into his funeral home office and searched through his belongings.†   (source)
  • The Hieros Gamos ritual is not a perversion.†   (source)
  • "Pervert," said his partner.†   (source)
  • This dawn, as on many others, perverts from the village across the stream sat on their bank and ogled us.†   (source)
  • The rain seemed to be getting heavier still, and my sister was glad she had changed out of the dress she'd worn to commencement and into the leather pants and jacket that Hal had insisted on getting her despite her protests that she looked like a pervert.†   (source)
  • Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect come into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin.†   (source)
  • Its crew of four were ill at ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics—as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.†   (source)
  • Whatever perversion caused him to like her was his problem.†   (source)
  • She's a one-woman walking, talking, man-hating perversion of the justice system.†   (source)
  • Dirt, allergens, stinging insects, bats, criminals, perverts.†   (source)
  • He explained that when they left Briarcrest and went out into the world, they would encounter "all kinds of groups that claim some kind of privilege based on their lifestyles or perversions."†   (source)
  • The man is an obvious pervert.†   (source)
  • When you pervert the talent God gave you by calling it a business.†   (source)
  • Even Satan was described in his most intimate perversions in the Galician accents of this priest whose mission in this world was to rouse the conscience of his indolent Creole flock.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, for eighteen years I had been taught that schools are bad and kids learn bad things there and peer pressure can ruin a child's life forever; but when I consider who I heard all this stuff from, a kidnapper, rapist, pedophile, narcissistic, pervert, I can only come to one conclusion.†   (source)
  • After so many years of calculated loves, the mild pleasure of innocence had the charm of a restorative perversion.†   (source)
  • Anyone who sees this video will discover that you're not merely a pervert but an insane sadist.†   (source)
  • He couldn't risk Mr. Turner catching him hanging around the girls' room as though he was some kind of pervert or something.†   (source)
  • And then she caught herself—she shouldn't have nice thoughts about the feet of a potential pervert.†   (source)
  • Pervert.†   (source)
  • I sat in the driver's seat scanning the mass of faces, feeling like a dope dealer or pervert.†   (source)
  • "You're a pervert" I push her off me.†   (source)
  • Small tear-gas canister for use against perverts on the subway.†   (source)
  • Carla met a pervert.†   (source)
  • And oh, is he ever the pervert.†   (source)
  • You might feel I'm a pervert or something—someone you can't trust your damn children around!†   (source)
  • To all of them, adult women were threatening creatures, and in two cases there was overt sexual perversion.†   (source)
  • Kevin felt dirty whenever he had to talk to him because the guy was a pervert and he belonged in prison, since the Bible says Let there be no sexual immorality among you.†   (source)
  • The movie, pervert.†   (source)
  • Of each erotic experience his memory recorded only the steep and narrow path of sexual conquest: the first piece of verbal aggression, the first touch, the first obscenity he said to her and she to him, the minor perversions he could make her acquiesce in and the ones she held out against.†   (source)
  • He said, 'Jesus Christ, where did you find this thing?' and so on, and he had to tell the other clerks about the pervert who wanted to buy the window dressing.†   (source)
  • It allowed me to see a little of the mysterious world of the pervert.†   (source)
  • Now that bad weather had come, almost no one ever sneaked away alone any more to peek through bushes like a pervert at the moldering stumps.†   (source)
  • It went on like that for a few minutes, but I guess I didn't fit the pervert profile, and they let me go.†   (source)
  • They are her unique perversions of words that are undoubtedly disturbing to hear, but she chants them in a cadence that's somehow lulling at the same time.†   (source)
  • And yet how could anyone understand such things: that delicacy masked a most unnatural coldness; that subtle thought had twisted itself into perversion.†   (source)
  • Go back to the early 1800s in England, before some pervert invented machinery.†   (source)
  • Anyway, we maybe got a pervert.†   (source)
  • As he recovered, she spat out, "Don't even think about it, pervert.†   (source)
  • I also took a look out the window to see if all the perverts were still in action, but the lights and all were out now.†   (source)
  • This left the Cuban administration and other colonial governments free to pervert the already dubious arrangement.†   (source)
  • Wasn't refusing to sell the chocolates a kind of perversion?†   (source)
  • Isn't there some sort of perversion in what we're taught, some error that's vicious and very important?†   (source)
  • "Pervert," I said.†   (source)
  • Far up in the northern mountains of the Forgotten Realms the crystal shard, the ultimate perversion, settled into the snow of a bowl-shaped dell.†   (source)
  • "Pervert," she said.†   (source)
  • He is a pervert!†   (source)
  • The anger made him lightheaded, but he did not talk about this other dimension of their perversion which, like the hunting of the mountain lion, was their idea of "sport" and fun.†   (source)
  • Some pervert wanting to talk about the dead preacher's dick.†   (source)
  • Deceit Used to Pervert Public Opinion†   (source)
  • I looked around to see if I could spot me a pervert.†   (source)
  • Disgusting-I'll report you to the authorities-perverts!†   (source)
  • There was a quality of sameness to the noise in the barracks as though the novelty of perversion was wearing off.†   (source)
  • He was publicly labeled a pervert and his career in civil rights was effectively quashed.†   (source)
  • Was it not plausible that some psychic valve in me, analogous to whatever controls the libido of a twenty-year convict or a lovelorn ape, had blown its gaskets, leaving me guiltlessly different, victim of the pressures of biological selection but nonetheless a pervert?†   (source)
  • Although he knew— and admitted—the man was guilty, Drummond was perverting the evidence to cast the guilt away from the accused and onto you and me and all of society.†   (source)
  • —They were also the inventors of all the great perversions.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL I put it to the Court that the prisoner is perverting the law-making smoky what should be a clear light to discover to the Court his own wrongdoing!†   (source)
  • The Hartford Courant called them "political tramps," and the New York Sun labeled twelve United States Senators "a group of moral perverts."†   (source)
  • It has come to my attention, sir, that you are perverting that mechanical brain for the purpose of implicating my good friend, Ben Reich, in the foul and dastardly murder of Craye D'Courtney.†   (source)
  • The neighborhood also had its share of perverts.   (source)
    perverts = people who like sexual practices considered unacceptable by society
  • He and Brian and I went out on a serious Pervert Hunt.   (source)
    pervert = of someone who likes sexual practices considered unacceptable by society
  • "If someone isn't naked, I'm going to be unimpressed."
      "Shut up, 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
  • "She's scary in that sort of sexy-older-woman way."
      "You pervert."   (source)
  • Then you go to France and be a pervert for Chairman Mao!   (source)
  • I engaged in the lowest perversions with China's enemies!   (source)
    perversions = things that have been converted so they are not what they should be
  • We decided we had been Pervert Hunting, which was just like Demon Hunting except the enemy was real and dangerous instead of being the product of a kid's overactive imagination.   (source)
    pervert = of someone who likes sexual practices considered unacceptable by society
  • And every now and then, when Brian and I were feeling revved up, he'd get a machete and I'd get a baseball bat and we'd go Pervert Hunting, clearing the streets of the creeps who preyed on kids.   (source)
  • "She's a pervert!"   (source)
    pervert = someone who likes sexual practices considered unacceptable by society
  • Then there was Ross, the second guy she dated. Ross the doctor. Ross the good-looking guy. Ross the pervert. One date with him was enough, thank you very much.   (source)
  • What perversions?   (source)
    perversions = things that have been converted so they are not what they should be
  • It was an unacceptable perversion of justice.
    perversion = the conversion of something to a wrong use
  • The library wants to assure the Internet is not used to strengthen pedophilia or other unhealthy sexual perversions.
  • Something unspeakable, down on all fours perhaps, perversions, whips, mutilations?†   (source)
  • You better look out, Pervert, or I'll sic my dog on you.†   (source)
  • So they threw the magazines away to "teach that pervert a lesson" and never spoke of it again.†   (source)
  • What's the name of that drug they give perverts so they can't get it up?†   (source)
  • Well, later on he would give the old Pervert a call.†   (source)
  • As the waiter poured, she whispered back, "I thought you had nice feet for a pervert."†   (source)
  • Standing there looking like a pervert, just watching me.†   (source)
  • She saw churches as breeding grounds for perverts and money changers.†   (source)
  • He was sure, he explained, that she was being raped by some pervert.†   (source)
  • What kind of pervert are you, counting how many times we touch each other?†   (source)
  • I'd want to know if he was violent or if he was some sort of pervert—†   (source)
  • Jesus, Roarke, I felt like some pervert with surveillance goggles.†   (source)
  • Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion.†   (source)
  • Bjurman had a tattoo across his belly which read 'I am a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist.'†   (source)
  • I'm not kidding, the hotel was lousy with perverts.†   (source)
  • "They're all perverts," she says, the words quiet and directed straight into my ear.†   (source)
  • I kind of hoped that maybe she'd finally spotted a pervert, and was just itching to tell folks.†   (source)
  • "I don't understand why men always have to document their perversions," she said.†   (source)
  • I consider mentioning the pervert excuse, but decide to save it in case I need it in the future.†   (source)
  • The people in the project treated him like a pervert.†   (source)
  • "I'm seventeen; we're all perverts," he said, kicking his shoes off and stepping out of his pants.†   (source)
  • Opponents use false arguments to pervert public opinion on the subject.†   (source)
  • Calling people perverts and degenerates.†   (source)
  • Perverts either, though it's a real education to scan the data.†   (source)
  • Disturbed semiregularly, by her pervert father, a part of the story she'll never know.†   (source)
  • I was certain that I didn't know any perverts.†   (source)
  • I'd overheard Aunt Matty say "pervert" to Mama and Aunt Carrie, when they were talking.†   (source)
  • Guess perverts dislike having paid-for sex amidst piles of clutter.†   (source)
  • You're a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist.†   (source)
  • He knew quite a bit about sex, especially perverts and all.†   (source)
  • But if n there was a pervert in the place, they sure kept it hid.†   (source)
  • With one hit, the life I have worked so hard to make normal perverts itself again.†   (source)
  • Now you listen, Bjurman: you're a pervert.†   (source)
  • I didn't know then that the goddam hotel was full of perverts and morons.†   (source)
  • So I just figured that a pervert had something to do with grammar.†   (source)
  • Apparently even perverts celebrate Thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • "You must be one of the sorriest perverts I've ever met," Salander said.†   (source)
  • I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • Unbelievers, heretics, usurers, perverts, suicides.†   (source)
  • Enter Oryx as a young girl on a kiddie-porn cite, flowers in her hair, whipped cream un her chin; or, Enter Oryx as a teenage news item, sprung from a pervert's garage; or, Enter Oryx, stark naked and pedagogical in the Crakers' inner sanctum; or, Enter Oryx, towel around her hair, emerging from the shower, or, Enter Oryx, in a pewter-grey silk pantsuit and demure half high heels, carrying a briefcase, the image of a professional Compound globewise saleswoman?†   (source)
  • Ofelia did not soften them: she was certain that Florentino Ariza, whose reputation as a pervert was known to everyone, was carrying on an equivocal relationship that did more harm to the family's good name than the villainies of Lorenzo Daza or the ingenuous adventures of Juvenal Urbino.†   (source)
  • The message was written in caps over five lines that covered his belly, from his nipples to just above his genitals: I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • Along with picking handcuffs, vaulting Jersey barriers, and fending off perverts, it is one of the quintessential Kourier skills: walking around in a place where you don't belong without attracting suspicion.†   (source)
  • "You pervert," was the last thing my sister said before she left the room, still carrying the bowl of potato chips.†   (source)
  • My brother ...football ...Brad ...Dave and his girlfriend in my room ...the coats ...the cold ...the winter ..."Autumn Leaves" ...don't tell anyone ...you pervert ...Sam and Craig ...Sam ...Christmas ...typewriter ...gift ...Aunt Helen ...and the trees kept moving ...they just wouldn't stop moving ...so I laid down and made a snow angel.†   (source)
  • Never mind the way the ole Pervert's eyes were glaring up at the ceiling in the shadows, the way the sheared-copper smell of his blood mingled with the sickish-sweet aroma of the honeysuckle.†   (source)
  • But if someone had punched Gary out, bloodied his nose, or maybe popped out a few of the old Pervert's remaining teeth, that person was gone now, because the only car in the yard other than Joe's rusty Ford LTD wagon was Gary's white '66 Chrysler hardtop.†   (source)
  • She had handcuffed him to his bed, abused him, and tattooed him with I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • Pervert.†   (source)
  • Or better yet, Pervert.†   (source)
  • Too many perverts out there.†   (source)
  • "Are you some kind of pervert?" she asked, not horrified at all but good-naturedly curious, like, "Hey ma, I've got a pervert on the line."†   (source)
  • "You must understand, however," the halfling explained, "that I do not, as some tales claim, have the power to pervert what is in a person's heart.†   (source)
  • "I enjoy it," she said, thinking it best not to mention her pervert boss or the occasionally overbearing parent.†   (source)
  • An amateurish tattoo across his belly with a message that said: 'I am a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist.'†   (source)
  • Pervert.†   (source)
  • "You two are perverts," she says.†   (source)
  • It stimulated my libido and I told myself that it was educational because it informed me of the difficulties in the secret world of the pervert.†   (source)
  • A faction may pervert its deliberation.†   (source)
  • Not a sexual pervert but another kind.†   (source)
  • Perverts.†   (source)
  • Are you some kind of pervert?†   (source)
  • I took a look out the window before I left the room, though, to see how all the perverts were doing, but they all had their shades down.†   (source)
  • Places like that are full of perverts.†   (source)
  • I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm turning into a pervert.†   (source)
  • He had almost lost it when he saw the tattoo on Bjurman's abdomen: I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • Perverts?†   (source)
  • The letters were irregular and clumsy—obviously whoever wrote them was a novice tattoo artist—but the message could not have been clearer: I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, ICI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest.†   (source)
  • Nobody saved the girl from a life of perversion.†   (source)
  • Over time, there were those who corrupted the Art, perverting it and abusing its power for personal gain.†   (source)
  • Acts of perversion, for all he knows.†   (source)
  • You've destroyed a strange, crude, beautiful and eerie perversion and replaced it with a boring oboe.†   (source)
  • It was a relic enchanted in the earliest days of the world, a perversion that had been lost for centuries, to the dismay of those evil lords who sought its strength.†   (source)
  • Perversion.†   (source)
  • The inventors of this fallacy try to support it by perverting the true meaning of legal maxims of law interpretation.†   (source)
  • If the Executive misbehaves by perverting the instructions or contravening the views of the Senate, the Senate will want to punish the abuser and defend their authority.†   (source)
  • When most of the people were lulled into a feeling of security, the pervert struck again.†   (source)
  • He confessed that he was a religious believer, an admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert.†   (source)
  • I'll tell 'im the schools are so crowded that they breed perverts!†   (source)
  • At that, the pervert pressed his body close to hers, pinning her against the banister.†   (source)
  • The pervert was huddled where he had fallen.†   (source)
  • The pervert's lip curled back to show broken dirty teeth.†   (source)
  • I do not make perversions.†   (source)
  • Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to.†   (source)
  • This Court has already heard of the obnoxious sexual perversions practiced by these boys in darkened theatres.†   (source)
  • None of the obscene words I had learned at school in Memphis had dealt with perversions of any sort, although I might have learned the words while loitering drunkenly in saloons.†   (source)
  • And it is also to be noted that the Trough sexuality is subtly different in quality from that of the Peak—much less likely to lead to the milk and water phenomenon which the humans call "being in love", much more easily drawn into perversions, much less contaminated by those generous and imaginative and even spiritual concomitants which often render human sexuality so disappointing.†   (source)
  • Now this idea must be used by us to encourage once again the conception of a "historical Jesus" to be found by clearing away later "accretions and perversions" and then to be contrasted with the whole Christian tradition.†   (source)
  • Speaking for the grief-stricken families of Mary Dalton and Bessie Mears, and for the People of the State of Illinois, thousands of whom are massed out beyond that window waiting for the law to take its course, I say that no such quibbling, no such trickery shall pervert this Court and cheat the law!†   (source)
  • Katie was a neighborhood heroine for a while but as time passed, the neighborhood forgot the murdering pervert.†   (source)
  • But I am curious to know are you trying to make a convert of me or a pervert of yourself?†   (source)
  • And what was the use, he asked, of confusing Religion with men's perversions of it?†   (source)
  • He wishes me to be a pervert to atheism.†   (source)
  • —Mystery; Finesse—how they pervert the understanding!†   (source)
  • You had begun to pervert my poor Felton.†   (source)
  • When I am gone, they pervert—but they don't mean it—even Maggy.'†   (source)
  • Unrecognized for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then wakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.†   (source)
  • And it was not long after Clyde had begun to work here that he was informed by these peculiar boys with whom he was associated, one or more of whom was constantly seated with him upon the "hop-bench," as they called it, as to the evidence and presence even here—it was not long before various examples of the phenomena were pointed out to him—of a certain type of social pervert, morally disarranged and socially taboo, who sought to arrest and interest boys of their type, in order to come into some form of illicit relationship with them, which at first Clyde could not grasp.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Probably, the Master-at-arms' clandestine persecution of Billy was started to try the temper of the man; but it had not developed any quality in him that enmity could make official use of or even pervert into plausible self-justification; so that the occurrence at the mess, petty if it were, was a welcome one to that peculiar conscience assigned to be the private mentor of Claggart.†   (source)
  • 'This has nothing to do with Jim, directly; only he was outwardly so typical of that good, stupid kind we like to feel marching right and left of us in life, of the kind that is not disturbed by the vagaries of intelligence and the perversions of—of nerves, let us say.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • With the aptness of a dog he submitted gladly to every humiliation and perversion of his nature.†   (source)
  • The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts-full of madness and suicide.†   (source)
  • She had an appearance of elegance become perversion, an appearance of wise, dangerous maturity achieved by looking like a very young girl.†   (source)
  • Since each of the three super-states is unconquerable, each is in effect a separate universe within which almost any perversion of thought can be safely practised.†   (source)
  • In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would be aware of this, and would avoid perverting the original phrase.†   (source)
  • I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature.†   (source)
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