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Deviant

/ˈdiː.vi.ənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard..

Definitions by Sense

  1. Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
  2. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
  3. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
  4. (Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.

Example Sentences

At the trial, the extent of his deviant behaviour became clear.
He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.
He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant.
In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance).
While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly.
Our data stem from these DD’s and galleries of the corresponding deviants and were acquired directly from dA Headquarters.
Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011).

Synonyms for deviant

heteroclitenonconformistabnormalityirregularityoutlieraberrantdegeneratepervertdeviateabnormal

Antonyms for deviant

Related Words

deviateabnormalaberrantpervertdegenerateanomalousunusualatypicalpervdissentingdissentmisleaddeviousproblemdeviationinappropriatedivergentperverseerrantbias

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does deviant mean?

Deviant means Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard..

What is a synonym for deviant?

Common synonyms include heteroclite, nonconformist, abnormality, irregularity.

What is the opposite of deviant?

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

How do you use deviant in a sentence?

At the trial, the extent of his deviant behaviour became clear.

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