Synonym: aberrant, degenerate, deviate, pervert. Similar words: device, devise, deviate, daredevil, rhetorical device, device characteristic, giant, pliant. Meaning: n. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. adj. markedly different from an accepted norm.
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(1) Deviant behaviour is one of the features of certain types of mental illness.
(2) Ever walked in on a really deviant scene?
(3) The normal justification thesis allows for deviant reasons.
(4) And a deviant and mentally diseased species as well.
(5) The magazine shows people engaging in deviant sexual acts.
(6) Given all this, the deviant cases require explanation.
(7) Deviant motivations, for example, are still taken as given; it is conformity rather than deviance that remains problematic.
(8) This is the case with all deviant social behaviour, such as incorrect marriages or theft.
(9) Since the youths learn to hide their sexually deviant behavior, they tend to be loners.
(10) Certain practices that once were condemned as deviant are now considered fairly normal.
(11) Without tampering with the deviant sentence itself, we can investigate the effects of placing it in variously elaborated discourse contexts.
(12) Resistance to control makes Nicky a problem, a deviant, a troublemaker.
(13) Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.
(14) Finally, deviant country studies are particularly useful for theory generation.
(15) However, there were clear differences in expectations of deviant pupils.
(16) There are many other deviant roles whose scripts exclude women.
(17) It may seem odd, but this deviant definition of homosexuality contributed greatly to the rise of gay liberation.
(18) As in the Victorian prisons and asylums, the retention of personal sanity required some deviant dodges.
(19) Moral entrepreneurs engage in the process of establishing moral rules by attempting to define certain actions or forms of behaviour as deviant.
(20) You might be able to think of crimes that are not generally regarded as deviant - crime committed in self-defence, for example.
(21) However, and to complicate the issue, it does not necessarily follow that all crime is always viewed as deviant.
(22) Going out to work had become the normal pattern of their lives, not a deviant one.
(23) Why should people deny the co-operative principle by being deviant, making their meanings less accessible, their transactions therefore less effective? Sentencedict.com
(24) Most sociologists of deviance have been so fascinated by the processes of defining deviance and becoming deviant that they have got over-excited.
(25) In contrast it is difficult to think of a deviant female role which is not perceived as damaging to its protagonist.
(26) Being an alcoholic is not against the law, and not criminal, although it is deviant.
(27) It sits on top of a pyramid of related images of deviant women as especially evil, depraved and monstrous.
(28) We mentioned in the Introduction that earlier sociological studies of deviant behaviour provide notes of caution about investigating phenomena like heroin use.
(29) Market forces remain free because of public imagery about the feckless, the idle and the deviant.
(30) Similarly, becoming a hermit and avoiding contact with other people would be considered deviant behaviour but it is not criminal.
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