Antonyms for pedophilepe·dophile

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1. pedophilenoun

   Synonyms:
   childlover

2. pedophilenoun

   a person who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children.

   Synonyms:
   childlover

3. pedophilenoun

   In American psychiatry, a person attracted primarily to prepubescent children.(DSM-IV: Over a period of at least six months, recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children)

   Synonyms:
   childlover

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1. • Pervert

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1. pedophile, paedophilenoun

   an adult who is sexually attracted to children

   Synonyms:
   paedophile

How to use pedophile in a sentence?

1. Allyn Walker:

   It’s less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile, a lot of people when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn’t true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors.

2. John Walsh:

   This is probably the fifth pedophile that I've [profiled] who's waited outside of concerts and said, 'I will drive you home or I will get in your car. I'm a parking lot security guard, I'm an off-duty cop; and you're tipsy, you're going to get a DUI', it's become a standard with these kidnapping predators.

3. Michael Moore:

   You have to protect the population from him like you do with a pedophile, a pedophile doesn’t need to be in prison; they’re sick. They have to be separated from us so they don’t hurt children. But you have to treat it that way.

4. Dan Reed:

   Its the story of these two families and not of all the other people who were or werent abused by Michael Jackson, people who spent time with him can go, he couldnt possibly be a pedophile. How do they know? Its absurd.

5. Josh Hawley:

   To me to take a guy who's 18 years old, who has what the government says is an extremely large collection of prepubescent pornography, eight-year-olds, 10-year-olds, 11-year-olds, we're talking about, I mean, gobs of hours of time here that he has, and you say to him, what you say well it was just a collection. I mean, he was just viewing it and it was, you know, essentially they were his peers. You say to him that he's not a pedophile. I don't know how you know that. I don't know why that's relevant to the guidelines. But maybe it is. You say he's not a pedophile. You say that you're very sorry for him. And what he suffered. And then you give him three months when, frankly, a liberal prosecutor is asking for two full years.

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