perv

Creepy leering person

Perv is informal for pervert—someone with sexual interests considered abnormal or deviant, especially toward inappropriate targets.

The word ranges from playful teasing Stop perving on the neighbors to genuine accusation.

As a verb, to perv is to ogle or leer: He was perving at women on the beach.

Also spelled perve.

harassment

groping

Searching by touch alone

unwanted · inappropriate · advances · touching · soliciting · flashing · exposing · offender · molester · abuse

lewdness

lewd

Obscenely sexual

smutty · vulgar · raunchy · filthy · depraved · deviant · degenerate · twisted · sick · warped

voyeurism

peeping

Looking through cracks

staring · watching · spying · stalking · lurking · peep · peeper · binoculars · window · hidden

sleaze

sleazy

Disreputably low-quality

  • creepyDisturbingly strange
  • skeevyDisgustingly disreputable
  • slimyWet, slippery, unpleasant

gross · disgusting · icky · repulsive · skin-crawling · unsettling · unnerving · shudder · cringe · predatory

intrusion

invasive

Encroaching without welcome

intruding · boundary · violation · privacy · unwelcome · uninvited · encroaching · imposing · overstepping

Opposites
sexual propriety/morality

pervsaint

Canonized holy person

prude · puritan · innocent · virgin · celibate

social respectability

pervgentleman

Courteous, honorable man

lady · man of honor · pillar of the community · straight arrow · class act

Phrases
Family

pervert, perverted, perversity, perverting, perverseness, pervs, perve, perving, perved

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