deviant

Example Sentences

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It determined that Vanier and Philippe’s deviant practices didn’t extend beyond the core “sect” at the original community in northern France.

From Seattle Times

“This is because of age-old antiqueer tropes that position all queer people as sexual predators and social deviants.”

From Washington Post

Robert Stone, who prosecuted Schaefer, once called him, “the most sexually deviant person I had ever seen. He made Ted Bundy look like a Boy Scout.”

From Seattle Times

McCarthy is particularly ruthless when it comes to describing academics, among whom she counts “a certain number of seasoned nonconformists and dissenters, sexual deviants, feather-bedders, alcoholics, impostors.”

From New York Times

Such mastery of capitalist subjecthood feels unexpected from a group so often portrayed as socially deviant.

From New York Times