deviant
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Thompson was part of the wave of artists in the 1950s who explored the darker, deviant impulses of American life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The cases of what the GSK report from 2003 described as "deviant behaviour" involved two men who were prescribed Ropinirole for Parkinson's disease.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
I think about her evolution of being comfortable in our own skin and being deviant.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024
That gave people an excuse to start pulling the masks down and indulging in the deviant behaviors often celebrated by drill rappers.
From Washington Times • Oct. 10, 2023
It was deviant more for him in the sense of diverging from the mainstream than anything significantly pejorative.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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