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Synonyms for deviant
ˈdi vi əntde·viant

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerateadjective

    a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

    Synonyms:
    pervert, deviate, degenerate

    Antonyms:
    normal

  2. aberrant, deviant, deviateadjective

    markedly different from an accepted norm

    "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

    Synonyms:
    aberrant, deviate

    Antonyms:
    normal

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "deviant":

    errant, abnormal, devious, pervert

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How to use deviant in a sentence?

  1. Imohimi Edgal:

    It is the duty of everybody, not only the police, to ensure that such antisocial behavior, such social vices, such crimes, are checked so that we can create communities that protect our children from such deviant behavior.

  2. Jonathan Gilliam:

    Minimization and lying are the characteristics of a deviant behavior and are typically signs of guilt.

  3. Caitlin Ryan:

    Homosexuality was considered a mental illness, deviant and immoral, if it were not for the early work of Reuters Health and social systems to change that, I don’t think we would have made the advances that we’ve made since then.

  4. Ron Book:

    I don't want those people living near children, if you put young children in the faces of people prone to commit sexually deviant behaviors on children, there is a greater chance than not that they'll act out. They ’ll do their thing.

  5. William Seward Burroughs:

    In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.


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