Deviant

"Deviant" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Sami had deviant thoughts.

In 1980, the Indonesian Ulama (religious scholar) Council, the country’s highest Muslim body, declared Ahmadiyya a "deviant sect."

In the Philippines, intellectuals exhibit eccentricity, as elsewhere in this world. And as elsewhere in this world, normal people try to suppress them, including accusing them of deviant sexuality. In the Philippines, eccentrics often learn the gay dialect as a way to signal to others that they are different and to appear more unthreatening. Each country has a different, yet similar way, in treating eccentric intellectuals.

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.

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Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011).

“Deviants continue to own their own works,” [Angelo] Sotira wrote. “In the future, there's a possibility Wix might provide opportunities for you to license your work — only if you want to — to more people around the world.”

Matuszczak credits the advice offered up by fellow “Deviants” for his artistic and technical development. […] In such a thicket of creativity, notes Gamiddo, who says he spends up to 10 hours a week on the site, “you have to do some work to get noticed. You get what you give.” In keeping with this philosophy, he has operated over the past three years as a news administrator, heralding the latest software and contests, such as the recent competition calling for Deviants to design a new icon for the legendary metal band Megadeth.

Cosgrove is one of many Deviants — as DeviantArt users call themselves — who believe that the unbiased commentary and advice of his peers has been crucial in their professional advancement. […] Cosgrove has created a tutorial about what he does and studies tutorials fellow Deviants have posted.

DeviantART's biggest milestone to date was celebrating its 10-year anniversary, he said. "It gave all of us on staff a concrete day to look back and see how far we had come. We sold out the House of Blues in Hollywood to Deviants who flew in from all around the world. […]

If you have a strong teen/young adult population, you probably have a decent number of Deviants in your community already.

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