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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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Just as Augustine begins De Civitate Dei with a discussion of the earthly distortions of Satan, so Milton begins with Satan's announcement of his role as the perverter of good, "one of Augustine's favorite ways of describing Satan as well" (49).

Perversions, Originals, and Redemptions in Paradise Lost: The Typological Scheme and Sign Theory that Unify Milton's Epic

Next, Napolitano outlines the frightening claims to power of President Lincoln, calling him "the Great Perverter of the Constitution" for closing down hundreds of newspapers, unilaterally suspending habeas corpus (the right of a detained person to be brought before a court to determine the legality of the detention), and using the military to arrest and try civilians.

Like sheep led to the slaughter: Judge Andrew Napolitano's latest work, A Nation of Sheep, summarizes the relentless abuse of God-given natural rights tolerated by fearful and apathetic Americans

You are a kangaroo artist, a distorter and perverter of law and justice, who rousts and railroads innocent victims of crimes at the hands of convicted and professional perjurers.

Dropping the K-bomb: a compendium of kangaroo tales from American judicial opinions

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