deviant

Example Sentences

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But “Mudtown” is also distinguished by the uncommon amount of deviant psychology at play among the characters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

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

The cruel irony here is that whistleblowers like Snowden continue to be derided as deviant misfits who are out for fame, profit, revenge or self-aggrandizement.

From Salon • May 30, 2023

We could call it a moral panic, a widespread and often unfounded fear about some deviant or alien entity in society.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

It's a strange kind of lust: K-hunger, Meg-hunger; but it's a shared disease; it can kill parties dead, as conversation spirals into the deepest and most deviant recesses of software releases and expensive peripherals....

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce