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Definition of deviant in English: deviantadjectiveˈdiːvɪəntˈdiviənt 1Departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour. Example sentencesExamples - Since deviant behaviour can be associated with the wearing of baseball caps we are politely asking those people who enter our premises not to wear caps.
- Those who indulge in deviant behaviour like smoking, drinking, drug abuse and breaking the law are also more prone to becoming pathological gamblers.
- Firstly, it can be argued that advances in technology bring new opportunities for crime and other forms of deviant behaviour.
- While there is a culture of revering rebels in the West, rebels, outcasts and deviant behaviour are really frowned upon here.
- He calls himself ‘a problem drinker, a user and occasional abuser of narcotics, a high school dropout, a pessimist prone to loose women and no stranger to prostitutes and deviant sexual behaviour’.
- Positive deviant behaviour is an uncommon practice that confers advantage to the people who practise it compared with the rest of the community.
- As an initiator, it lures the young and old into subcultures such as illicit drug use, and to deviant behaviors such as sexual promiscuity and/or prostitution.
- I have a bachelor's in deviant behavior and social control and an A.A.S in human services.
- This, in turn, reinforces the idea that children who exhibit any kind of sexual behavior are deviant in some way.
- What is called as deviant behaviour by the majority of the society is so much of a taboo that we do not even acknowledge the existence of it.
- Given these contradictory insights from the literature, the issue of deviant behaviour and informal social control in peer - to - peer networks needs more empirical research.
- The current business models, private and public, have largely mismanaged resources, produced a sense of insecurity, and a kind of hopelessness that shows up as deviant behaviour.
- Since the dangers of passive smoking have been highlighted and smoking is becoming regarded as socially unacceptable, that is, deviant behaviour, many more people are trying to stop, and succeeding.
- If we are to achieve a full understanding of deviant behaviour, we must get these two foci of inquiry into balance.
- And it's at the core of a breakdown in the society that appears to be irreversible unless and until deviant parents are made legally responsible for the equally deviant behaviour of their children.
- If most people portray their sexual behavior as conforming to a double standard, then behavior inconsistent with this double standard will appear deviant.
- In a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, this author decried the need for government and pharmaceutical industry support for research in the treatment of sexually deviant behavior.
- Thomas and Loader, for example, argue that new technology inevitably leads to new forms of deviant behaviour that arise in order to exploit new opportunities.
- Eddie himself loves telling stories to everyone about the deviant behaviour of all of his family members.
- Everybody has them and this research will attempt to determine whether sexual fantasies play a significant role in the occurrence of deviant behaviour of adult males.
Synonyms aberrant, deviating, divergent, abnormal, atypical, untypical, non-typical, anomalous, digressive, irregular, non-standard nonconformist, rogue, perverse, transgressing, wayward strange, odd, peculiar, uncommon, unusual, freak, freakish, curious, bizarre, eccentric, idiosyncratic, unorthodox, exceptional, singular, unrepresentative distorted, twisted, warped, perverted informal bent, kinky, quirky - 1.1offensive Homosexual.
noun ˈdiːvɪəntˈdiviənt A deviant person or thing. killers, deviants, and those whose actions are beyond most human comprehension Example sentencesExamples - Child sexual abuse does not only include the acts of a tiny minority of sexual deviants.
- If you're abnormal, I guess I'm way out there amongst the deviants.
- Over a forty-year career as a smut-finder, Comstock boasted the confiscation of fifty tons of books and four million pictures, as well as four thousand arrests and at least 15 moral deviants driven to suicide.
- Today's deviants have declared war on the society as a whole, so we have no choice but to wage war against them.
- I've worked in institutions where 70 and 80 year old ladies have been incarcerated since they were in their teens because they were a bit promiscuous and society had labelled them deviants.
- Strip clubs are not a festering hive of perverts and deviants.
- They are best understood not as occasional deviants on the peripheries of legal practice, but as experts entrenched at the centre of literary and intellectual culture in the twelfth century.
- If government allocates more resources to rekindle that spirit, that sense of responsibility to protect the society from deviants, it would find the returns are much better than expanding the security forces.
- Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.
- Poor people were looked upon as deviants within society well before the 20th century.
- In this strategy I am thankfully aided by Floyd, who is doubtless the most perverse sexual deviant ever to reside in our fair city of Wellington.
- Arbus was also masterful at capturing the normalness of those that mainstream society branded as deviants or freaks.
- If they fill their minds with weird and wonderful activities, with pornography, then it is no wonder that we turn out far too many deviants and perverts in our society.
- Cricket, in fact, is so pervasive and powerful some non-believers (yes, these deviants also exist) complain that we are a country only of cricket and more cricket.
- Were you saying the behavior is deviant or they're deviants?
- Emile Durkheim pointed out long ago that even a society of saints would produce its deviants.
- Until recently online dating was considered a taboo and the domain of sexual deviants.
- Gays who were once considered deviants can now benefit from the security of legally sanctioned marriages.
- ‘Normal’ travel patterns are discovered, and deviants from that normalcy are subjected to greater scrutiny at the airport.
- After the Production Code was lifted lesbians and gays began to appear in more films, but generally as perverts, psychopaths, or deviants who were to be pitied.
Synonyms nonconformist, eccentric, maverick, individualist, exception, outsider, misfit, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole, round peg in a square hole informal oddball, odd fish, weirdo, weirdie, freak, bad boy North American informal screwball, kook US informal wackadoo, wackadoodle
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin deviant- 'turning out of the way', from the verb deviare (see deviate). Definition of deviant in US English: deviantadjectiveˈdiviəntˈdēvēənt 1Departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior. Example sentencesExamples - Since deviant behaviour can be associated with the wearing of baseball caps we are politely asking those people who enter our premises not to wear caps.
- If we are to achieve a full understanding of deviant behaviour, we must get these two foci of inquiry into balance.
- Given these contradictory insights from the literature, the issue of deviant behaviour and informal social control in peer - to - peer networks needs more empirical research.
- As an initiator, it lures the young and old into subcultures such as illicit drug use, and to deviant behaviors such as sexual promiscuity and/or prostitution.
- Thomas and Loader, for example, argue that new technology inevitably leads to new forms of deviant behaviour that arise in order to exploit new opportunities.
- If most people portray their sexual behavior as conforming to a double standard, then behavior inconsistent with this double standard will appear deviant.
- He calls himself ‘a problem drinker, a user and occasional abuser of narcotics, a high school dropout, a pessimist prone to loose women and no stranger to prostitutes and deviant sexual behaviour’.
- In a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, this author decried the need for government and pharmaceutical industry support for research in the treatment of sexually deviant behavior.
- What is called as deviant behaviour by the majority of the society is so much of a taboo that we do not even acknowledge the existence of it.
- The current business models, private and public, have largely mismanaged resources, produced a sense of insecurity, and a kind of hopelessness that shows up as deviant behaviour.
- Positive deviant behaviour is an uncommon practice that confers advantage to the people who practise it compared with the rest of the community.
- I have a bachelor's in deviant behavior and social control and an A.A.S in human services.
- While there is a culture of revering rebels in the West, rebels, outcasts and deviant behaviour are really frowned upon here.
- This, in turn, reinforces the idea that children who exhibit any kind of sexual behavior are deviant in some way.
- Firstly, it can be argued that advances in technology bring new opportunities for crime and other forms of deviant behaviour.
- And it's at the core of a breakdown in the society that appears to be irreversible unless and until deviant parents are made legally responsible for the equally deviant behaviour of their children.
- Those who indulge in deviant behaviour like smoking, drinking, drug abuse and breaking the law are also more prone to becoming pathological gamblers.
- Everybody has them and this research will attempt to determine whether sexual fantasies play a significant role in the occurrence of deviant behaviour of adult males.
- Eddie himself loves telling stories to everyone about the deviant behaviour of all of his family members.
- Since the dangers of passive smoking have been highlighted and smoking is becoming regarded as socially unacceptable, that is, deviant behaviour, many more people are trying to stop, and succeeding.
Synonyms aberrant, deviating, divergent, abnormal, atypical, untypical, non-typical, anomalous, digressive, irregular, non-standard - 1.1offensive Homosexual.
nounˈdiviəntˈdēvēənt A deviant person or thing. Example sentencesExamples - If government allocates more resources to rekindle that spirit, that sense of responsibility to protect the society from deviants, it would find the returns are much better than expanding the security forces.
- After the Production Code was lifted lesbians and gays began to appear in more films, but generally as perverts, psychopaths, or deviants who were to be pitied.
- Strip clubs are not a festering hive of perverts and deviants.
- Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.
- If you're abnormal, I guess I'm way out there amongst the deviants.
- Arbus was also masterful at capturing the normalness of those that mainstream society branded as deviants or freaks.
- I've worked in institutions where 70 and 80 year old ladies have been incarcerated since they were in their teens because they were a bit promiscuous and society had labelled them deviants.
- ‘Normal’ travel patterns are discovered, and deviants from that normalcy are subjected to greater scrutiny at the airport.
- Child sexual abuse does not only include the acts of a tiny minority of sexual deviants.
- Until recently online dating was considered a taboo and the domain of sexual deviants.
- Over a forty-year career as a smut-finder, Comstock boasted the confiscation of fifty tons of books and four million pictures, as well as four thousand arrests and at least 15 moral deviants driven to suicide.
- Were you saying the behavior is deviant or they're deviants?
- Emile Durkheim pointed out long ago that even a society of saints would produce its deviants.
- Cricket, in fact, is so pervasive and powerful some non-believers (yes, these deviants also exist) complain that we are a country only of cricket and more cricket.
- They are best understood not as occasional deviants on the peripheries of legal practice, but as experts entrenched at the centre of literary and intellectual culture in the twelfth century.
- Poor people were looked upon as deviants within society well before the 20th century.
- Today's deviants have declared war on the society as a whole, so we have no choice but to wage war against them.
- If they fill their minds with weird and wonderful activities, with pornography, then it is no wonder that we turn out far too many deviants and perverts in our society.
- Gays who were once considered deviants can now benefit from the security of legally sanctioned marriages.
- In this strategy I am thankfully aided by Floyd, who is doubtless the most perverse sexual deviant ever to reside in our fair city of Wellington.
Synonyms nonconformist, eccentric, maverick, individualist, exception, outsider, misfit, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole, round peg in a square hole
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin deviant- ‘turning out of the way’, from the verb deviare (see deviate). |