What's the difference between perry and pervy?

Perry


Definition:

  • (n.) A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
  • (n.) A suddent squall. See Pirry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Academisation and a school system on the brink | Letters Read more Perry Beeches has been a favourite of Cameron, as well as former education secretary Michael Gove and his successor Nicky Morgan .
  • (2) Perry and I are on our way to the Silicon Drinkabout , a get-together for anyone connected to the tech scene, hosted every week by a different local bar.
  • (3) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
  • (4) UPDATE: Aztec new rave Katy Perry performs onstage.
  • (5) Some will be here a day, some will be here weeks.” 9.14pm BST Earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and said he plans to request federal aid.
  • (6) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
  • (7) When Japan was finally opened to western influence by Commodore Perry in 1854, Shakespeare's works – via Lamb's Tales – followed closely behind.
  • (8) The party was founded to fight for a better deal for thousands of local co-operatives during the first world war, and in the years afterwards elected a handful of MPs (including Sam Perry, the father of Fred Perry the tennis champion).
  • (9) Perry himself said that “anxiety seems to be a theme” of the submissions from remainers.
  • (10) It would be hugely problematic for Perry if any clear evidence were to emerge that he stopped the funding because he did not want a public integrity unit, especially one led by a Democrat, probing too closely into alleged improprieties .
  • (11) Perry said she was insured but asked: "How much will that cost to renew now?
  • (12) Perry, Cruz, Cornyn and other politicians frequently turn to TPPF to help make the intellectual case for reducing government involvement in healthcare.
  • (13) ‘Britain brilliantly placed to lead the world’ “Driverless cars have huge potential to transform the UK’s transport network – they could improve safety, reduce congestion and lower emissions, particularly CO2,” said the transport minister, Claire Perry, who committed to the regulatory review of road law.
  • (14) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
  • (15) Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013.
  • (16) In a parliamentary debate last month, Claire Perry, a Conservative MP who has campaigned for tighter controls, said that 60% of nine- to 19-year-olds had found porn online, while only 15% of computer-literate parents knew how to use filters to block access to certain sites.
  • (17) Psychotherapist Philippa Perry gave a talk at the ICA earlier this year, entitled "How To Be Happy".
  • (18) Perry said the identify of the insurgent was not known.
  • (19) This privileged access reflects not only the networking skills of Labour MP Graham Allen, the founding chair of the Early Intervention Foundation and a self-confessed fan of Perry, but a genuine interest among policymakers in ideas that appear to address pressing issues for austerity Britain.
  • (20) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.

Pervy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An album of what can only be described as lo-fi new-wave punk-funk, with a monochrome cover shot of Prince in a studded raincoat and pervy posing pouch, it was an irresistible black-rock mashup.
  • (2) From someone junior at work, “nice dress” can be smarmy; from someone senior, it can be faintly pervy.
  • (3) The other advantage of a long fag-having-a-fag scene is that it makes the protagonist appear slightly older, so you'll feel less pervy about fancying him.
  • (4) The sprinter François Pervis, who had tweeted "la sodomie continue" (rough translation, "we got shafted again") after Jason Kenny's victory over Grégory Baugé in the match sprint final, said on Monday that he was certain the British were not using drugs, but that they had the edge on the equipment front.
  • (5) I just think they thought he was a funny old man, a pervy old man."
  • (6) This commercial impracticality, along with the fact it’s a bit pervy, are parts of the reason the Court of Justice of the European Union overturned data retention in Europe as contrary to the “right of respect for private life” and the “fundamental right to the protection of personal data”.
  • (7) The British are like that, but with this pervy twist: we walk in the rain not to feel passion for some mere human, but for the rain itself.
  • (8) As it is, the thought of all the pervy pausing on her nude shots is quite unbearable.

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