deviant
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˈdiːviənt/
:
desviado
- Society often labels those who act outside its norms as deviant individuals.
- deviant behavior
- deviant acts
- deviant peers
We have an inability to foresee and foretell bizarre deviant behavior.
- We have an inability to foresee and foretell bizarre deviant behavior.
- No, the human development that has taken place means that although we can find relations that are like the master slave dialectic, those are deviant.
- They're viewed as being wrong, as deviant, as as sometimes, you know, objects of fear or anger or derision, she says.
Examples
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Many people viewed his ideas as deviant because they challenged traditional beliefs.
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By the late nineteenth century, the subject brought deviant behavior to the minds of certain writers.
Academic text (2015) -
Could be her sexual interests are deviant.
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What deviant groups or organizations does he secretly belong to?
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During our conversation, she made it clear that she did not consider tattoos deviant.
Academic text (2012) -
Despite its pervasiveness, it is considered by many to be a "deviant enterprise."
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More adequate and less biased measures are needed for research about deviant social worlds.
Academic text (1992) -
And perhaps they've seen things behind closed doors, some of this deviant behavior and they just don't want to be associated with it.
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Results show that gender, quality of family relationships, and deviant behavior were related to multiple victimization in adolescence.
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More specifically, the maintenance of "normal" relationships depends on the repression and oppression of "deviant" ones.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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4.8
Not right according to moral or professional rules most people accept
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7.9
Refusing to do what is right or expected on purpose
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8.0
Not following normal moral rules and behaving badly
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7.5
Hard to control because a person behaves badly or strangely
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6.9
Behaving in ways that harm other people or public property
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8.2
Different from what is normal, often in a way people see as wrong
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7.1
Not trusted or respected because of bad behavior
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8.5
Going beyond accepted social or moral rules
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7.8
Not following rules or expected standards
Different from what people expect in behavior or ideas
Going beyond accepted limits and breaking rules or laws
Wrong or bad because it goes against accepted ideas of right and wrong
Acts against rules people follow and hurts or upsets others
Antonyms
How Deviant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deviant comes from the Latin parts de- 'away' and via 'way'. So to call behavior deviant is to say it 'turns away' from accepted standards and is clearly different from what people expect.