deviant's Usage Examples:

World-rejecting movements view the prevailing social order as deviant and a perversion.

he remarked: "If the deviants will start demonstrating, they need to be bashed with a thick stick.

Customers who attended screenings of sexploitation films were often characterised by the mainstream media as deviant, dirty old men and raincoaters.

Non-conformists threaten to increase within-group variation by introducing deviant behaviours.

These individuals are referred to as positive deviants.

and the practice of same-sex marriage, to the view that homosexuality is sinfully deviant and contrary to God"s intentions for sexual expression.

results showed a strong correlation between deviant peer groups and sexual promiscuity.

as outsiders in the epic are "othered" by being represented as sexual, dietetical, and political deviants.

Organi-cultural deviance explains the deviant behaviors.

pathological object is one which possesses deviant, irregular, or counterintuitive property, in such a way that distinguishes it from what is conceived.

2007 release Stomp was called one seriously heavy slice of deviant dancefloor electro in another 5 star review in iDJ, with crossover potential compared to The Prodigy in DJ Mag and named 'Record of the Week' in places ranging from UK dance music mag legend DMC Update to John Kennedy's X-Posure show on XFM.

Similarly, individuals engage in deviant behaviours when their means do not match their goals.

Farrands describes Michael as a sexual deviant.

Synonyms:

deviate, abnormal, aberrant, unnatural,

Antonyms:

uncover, unneurotic, equal, conform, normal,