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verb abuse, canker, contaminate, corrumpere, corrupt, debauch, degenerate, demoralize, deprave, divert, falsify, infect, lead astray, lower, make corrupt, misapply, mislead, misrepresent, misuse, poison, pollute, prostitute, render evil, ruin, soil, spoil, stain, subvert, taint, tamper with, teach wickeddess, vitiate, warp
Foreign phrases: Quae ad unum finem loquuta sunt, non debent ad alium detorqueri.Those words which are spooen to one end ought not to be perverted to another.

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The lead perverter commented, "The fact that the trial went as smoothly as it did was a pleasant surprise.

THE TRIAL OF NAPOLEON: A CASE STUDY FOR USING MOCK TRIALS

He went on: "The present government is no inheritor of the Scottish tradition, but a perverter of it.

Forsyth goes on a Nat attack

liar, perverter of justice, traitor, who let himself be persuaded by under-

Cold meats: Timokreon on Themistokles

We recognize, although Eve does not, that Satan is a perverter of "reason" and "truth," thus it is possible to hear in the ringing of his words a suggestion of "treason" and "ruth": a temporary chiastic deformation producing a perverted rhyming pair, but nevertheless a highly appropriate echoing for this scene of betrayal and eventual remorse.

Milton's missing rhymes

And being law-abiding, in defense of true law he was prepared to slay the chief of state, perverter of Germany's laws and the laws of man's nature.

In memoriam: a lecture on natural law

Red hair is traditionally an attribute of Judas Iscariot, and Jack Merridew, who, note, starts off as Ralph's lieutenant among the island boys, becomes, indeed, the Judas of the island, the perverter of the boys into degeneracy and barbarism.

He was more original in identifying private property, along with government, as the great perverter of humanity.

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

Estamos proximos da postura rosseliniana, em que se buscava as estrelas do passado para perverter e reinventar suas personas, como num processo de reafirmacao de personalidade do diretor.

Erecting new bodies, reinventing old personas: modern actors in Brazilian cinema/ Erigir novos corpos, reinventar personas: o ator moderno do cinema Brasileiro

Com efeito, se este disse alguma coisa pouco ajustada ao nosso teor de vida, e licito perverter a interpretacao, mas repele-se de imediato quem ouse, mesmo levemente, opor-se aos oraculos aristotelicos.

War and doctrine: the Brazilian historiography and the problem of the colonial authority/Guerra e doutrina: a historiografia brasileira e o problema da autoridade colonial

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