Definition of pedophile
: one affected with pedophilia
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The vocal Trump supporter has advanced various right-wing conspiracy theories to her nearly 650,000 followers, including claiming that the president has been breaking up high-level pedophile rings.
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The credibility of the church has been battered by a string of scandals, some involving pedophile priests and the cover-up of their crimes.
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Other pedophiles positioned themselves as the young athlete's ticket to a college scholarship or gold medal.
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The 47-year-old Venckiene says the charges are politically motivated and arise from her exposure of an influential pedophile ring whose victims include her niece.
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Investigators suspected Ramos was a pedophile who could have ties to Etan.
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Just this weekend, after the airing of the Roseanne reboot, Barr hailed an obscure conspiracy theory that Trump has been breaking up multiple rings of pedophiles.
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The primary image of the Catholic priest in 2002 was the pedophile.
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Many of those pedophiles were allowed to continue to be around children.
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First Known Use of pedophile
1912
Medical Dictionary
variants:
or chiefly British
paedophile
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\ˈpēd-\
medical Definition of pedophile
: one affected with pedophilia — called also
pedophiliac
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