Definition of pedophile
:one affected with pedophilia
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In addition, Francis drew heated criticism for his 2015 appointment of a Chilean bishop accused by victims of helping cover up for Chile's most notorious pedophile.
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Francis drew heated criticism for his 2015 appointment of a Chilean bishop accused by victims of helping cover up for Chile's most notorious pedophile.
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The North Carolina man who commandeered a pizza restaurant at gunpoint in Northwest Washington to investigate a false Internet rumor of a pedophile ring there was sentenced to four years in in prison Thursday.
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The North Carolina man who commandeered a pizza restaurant at gunpoint in Northwest Washington, D.C., to investigate a false Internet rumor of a pedophile ring there was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday.
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The police in Washington refuted claims that Comet was running a pedophile ring, but the theories continued.
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But when have Republicans ever let the truth get in the way of a good lie? Wack jobs have continued to insist that a pedophile ring is being run out of a pizza shop the Clintons have something to do with Foster’s death.
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Or that Chobani was hiring rapists, or that assorted pedophile rings are rampant in our land, or that the recent election was rigged, and on and on.
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Now everyone calls him a pedophile and says terrible things about him, which aren't true.
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First Known Use of pedophile
1912
Medical Dictionary
pedophile
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noun
pe·do·phile
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ˈpēd-ə-ˌfīl
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ˈped-
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variants:
or chiefly British
paedophile
play
\ˈpēd-\
medical Definition of pedophile
:one affected with pedophilia — called also
pedophiliac
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