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deviant

Definition

  • noun: a person who behaves in a way that most people consider to be not normal or morally correct
  • adjective: different from what is considered to be normal or morally correct
  • adjective: 'deviating' especially from an accepted norm

Examples

  • a study of 'deviant' behavior among criminals

  • a 'deviant' lifestyle

  • a sexual 'deviant'

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...should you care to hear it. Continue. Let me go further in time then. To a future when the most vile murderers and deviants in the universe... ...will become united under one leader. There will be a war of light that will burn the surface of Oa black. It will leave scores of Lanterns dead. (..)
    2011 Green Lantern: Emerald Knights