Pervy vs. Pervert

By Jaxson

  • Pervy (adjective)

    Behaving or looking like a sexual pervert.

  • Pervert (noun)

    One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.

  • Pervert (noun)

    A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

    “Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!”

  • Pervert (verb)

    To turn another way; to divert.

  • Pervert (verb)

    To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure

  • Pervert (verb)

    To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.

    “pervert one’s words”

  • Pervert (verb)

    To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

Wiktionary
  • Pervy (adjective)

    sexually perverted

    “he paid people attention and made them feel special—and not in a pervy way”

  • Pervert (verb)

    distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something)

    “he was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice”

  • Pervert (verb)

    lead (someone) away from what is considered natural or acceptable

    “Hector is a man who is simply perverted by his time”

  • Pervert (noun)

    a person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.

Oxford Dictionary

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