What is "deviant"

Usage examples of "deviant".

If anonymity increases deviant behavior, then one way to deal with that deviance would be to decrease anonymity.

E-zines: Deviant Minds, Alternate Realities, Planet Magazine, Suspect Thoughts, Apocalypse Fiction, Dark Muse, Demensions, The Murder Hole, Fuzzclog, Tantalus Fire, No Boundaries, Fantastic Metropolis, and SHZine.

But the Tholians can repurpose such deviant individuals and in effect program out the drives that might ultimately bring them here.

Certainly the Send butchered any and all strit words, with a deviant amount of pride.

From watching him refuse the meat, Azzie suspected him of vegetarianism, one of the deviant marks by which a Catharist heretic could be detected.

Pirius realized that to penetrate the strange, deviant culture of this Base, he was going to have to meet this frontline prophet.

He would be awkward with women, sexually inexperienced in the normal sense, and find his release in a large pornography collection devoted to deviant practices such as sadomasochism and torture.

During the late sixties and early seventies he was the lead singer with the notorious Deviants, who have frequently been cited as one of the major precursors of punk rock.

In the minds of the growing mob, deviants of that nature knew no difference between love and rape, between adults and children.

I believe the church will expunge itself of these perverts, these deviants.

Conda Challis saw to that, may his bloated, arrogant, deviant carcass rot in whatever hell the theologically resourceful can invent for him!

Helen read about the antics of several deviant vicars and lascivious witches, then turned to page 6 and froze, for there, confronting her, was a large picture of Rupert lying on a beach in bathing trunks, eyes narrowed against the sun, glass in his hand, palm trees in the background.

She came back to their flat one day to find him sitting, not in trance but doing nothing, and surrounded by books-many books: The Talmud, the Kama-Sutra, Bibles in various versions, the Book of the Dead, the Book of Mormon, Patty's precious copy of the New Revelation, Apocrypha of various sorts, the Koran, the unabridged Golden Bough, The Way, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the sacred writings of a dozen other religions major and minor-even such deviant oddities as Crowley's Book of the Law.

The Talmud, the Kama-Sutra, Bibles in various versions, the Book of the Dead, the Book of Mormon, Patty's precious copy of the New Revelation, Apocrypha of various sorts, the Koran, the unabridged Golden Bough, The Way, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the sacred writings of a dozen other religions major and minor-even such deviant oddities as Crowley's Book of the Law.

You've had centuries of the best biotechnology around to breed out all thoughts of deviant activity, and a barrier not of energy but of tens of thousands of light-years of space to keep out social contamination.