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Deviant   Listen
adjective
Deviant  adj.  
1.
Deviating. (Obs.)
2.
Having behavior or characteristics differing from that which is normal or expected, especially in an undesirable or socially disapproved manner; as, deviant behavior.
Synonyms: deviate.






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"Deviant" Quotes from Famous Books



... written in textbooks, in journals, and in various scattered articles about the causes of juvenile delinquency. What applies in other communities, and in other aspects of juvenile delinquency, must apply with much the same force in this Dominion as elsewhere, and to the sexual deviant as to all other juvenile delinquents. In searching for the real or substantive cause it must be borne in mind that juvenile delinquency, of the type now being considered, is a new feature of modern life and a facet of juvenile delinquency ...
— Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents - The Mazengarb Report (1954) • Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.



Words linked to "Deviant" :   pederast, sod, unnatural, letch, nympho, reprobate, pedophile, sadomasochist, deviance, bugger, aberrant, sadist, abnormal, fetishist, lecher, degenerate, nymphomaniac, lech, masochist, miscreant, paederast



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