What's the difference between perv and pervy?

Perv


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
  • (2) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (3) More people are doing it: violinist Mia Matsumiya, for example, has recently launched her Perv Magnet tumblr, which shows some of the thousands of suggestive and abusive messages she has received online over the last decade.
  • (4) More from Behind the joke • Sarah Kendall: the worst heckle I ever received – and what I did with it • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid
  • (5) You'll fill up everyone's Facebook with maps and distances and stats, when all they want is to be racist and perv over people they went to school with.
  • (6) Last year, the Republican nominee said Weiner was a “perv” and a security risk due to his proximity to Clinton, through Abedin.
  • (7) Theirs, though, was not the sort of solidarity paraded by the "perv-hunters".
  • (8) That has changed Then there’s Prince (“The Purple Perv”) who admires Patterson’s shoes.
  • (9) It's the grubbiness of it, the apparent acceptability of the leer, that makes Page 3 so outdated, embodying as it does the "just a cheeky bit of perving" flippancy of 1970s seaside postcard.

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.

Words possibly related to "perv"

Words possibly related to "pervy"