How to Use deviant in a Sentence

deviant

1 of 2 adjective

• Snowflake yeasts have their own way of purging themselves of deviant cells.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• But the idea of using the military to crush protests used to seem deviant, too.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 June 2020
• Black-haired putti, prying and vaguely deviant, swarmed around her.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• While all this was going on, there was one delightfully deviant coach.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• He was bred with his daughter to produce more white tigers, and his deviant blood still courses through the veins of many of the cats today.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Five states, including two where electors can be replaced, penalize a deviant vote.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2020
• The last had a criminal history and had served time for unlawful deviant conduct.
  — Jennifer Terker, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2022
• Oh, and the deviant kingpin of them all, the murderous Aaron Hernandez.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• This isn’t to say that all men engage in these behaviors – or that booking relatively late is a sign of deviant behavior.
  — Javier D. Donna, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2022
• Meanwhile, a deviant killer operating in the yakuza underworld seems to be shadowing their moves.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2026
• The deviant behavior acts as a catalyst for the first interaction.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2011
• Somehow this blog was responsible for curbing their most deviant behavior?
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• But unvaccinated people aren’t a random group of defectors who are trying to be deviant.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 22 July 2021
• About 30 states attempt to bind electors to the winning candidate, though some of those states don’t penalize people who cast deviant votes.
  — Greg Stohr, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• The more density, the more aggression and deviant behavior these rodents showed one another.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 3 June 2017
• The beast in Qiu Miaojin’s modernist novels is the consciousness in women that is aware of a deviant lust for women’s bodies.
  — Ankita Chakraborty, Longreads, 8 June 2018
• Gambhir’s revolutionary ambition was to erase the long, silent, lethal interval between the first deviant cell and a grim lab report.
  — Madeline Drexler, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
• Thatcher’s government has just passed a law that stereotypes lesbians and gays as paedophiles, recruiting children for their ‘deviant’ lifestyles.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2022
• Only one person can torture Wednesday's deviant brother and that's Wednesday herself.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 5 Sep. 2022
• Across the nation, a small portion of these deviant kids are showing off their work on sites like Twitter, with videos posted of users stealing everything from light poles to bathroom sinks.
  — Karly Williams, Chron, 16 Sep. 2021
• Deviant Artist of the Day’ will no longer necessarily feature simply artists who have pages on Deviant Art.
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2007
• More broadly, his erratic and deviant behavior has violated all kinds of norms of presidential conduct.
  — Jonathan Rauch, Time, 19 May 2017
• Some civil liberties advocates have long called for the end to mask bans, while criminologists point out that anonymity is commonly linked to deviant behavior.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2020
• Fuller in fact is subjected to a humiliating interrogation about possible deviant behavior, but lies his way out of it.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The Moroccan team dropped to their knees in prayer, again, in the center of a new football stage where Islam was neither fringe nor marginal, deviant nor dangerous.
  — Khaled A. Beydoun, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
• That the virtual world Zuckerberg wants to invent might open this Pandora’s box of deviant digitization should come as no surprise.
  — Timothy Lloyd, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2021
• Scholars have described Mongolia as a paradox, an anomaly, and a least likely or deviant case of democratization.
  — Boldsaikhan Sambuu, Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• But these days, no matter how deviant or morally abhorrent their beliefs, people have no trouble finding soulmates on 4chan, 8chan or Telegram.
  — Arie Kruglanski, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• Again, Plopper insisted that a behavior practiced by only 5% of the population is deviant.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2021
• The shoot, hanging mid-air and by a thread, is threatened by Jared’s thirst for realistic violence, and scenes begin to depict the mounting grievances and deviant obstacles.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022

deviant

2 of 2 noun

• Being awake, truly awake, not lying in bed with my eyes scrunched closed, felt deviant.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 29 May 2018
• Sometimes through deviant, dark comedy, there’s a light there.
  — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Penelope once found the two girls in the same bed during a sleepover and called Cheryl a deviant.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 8 Mar. 2018
• Islam has blocked the path which would lead women to such a deviant lifestyle,’’ Khamenei said.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Cool people aren't merely deviants.
  — Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
• The Cartel Music crew member got deviant all over this heavy tune.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 6 June 2017
• The latest potential deviant is the pea aphid , a foe to farmers and a friend to geneticists.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2012
• The lovers’ power play serves to flesh out their compatibility, not paint them as deviants.
  — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• Male politicians who dress up in women’s clothes are no longer called deviants but honored and celebrated as women.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 26 Feb. 2023
• This is a narrative that has been cultivated—and continues to be—to paint gay people as deviant.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile, a deviant killer operating in the yakuza underworld seems to be shadowing their moves.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
• Despite such deviant behaviour by a feckless few, Bycyklen was something of a success.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• Paduch took advantage of his victims for his own deviant satisfaction.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2023
• In the court of public opinion, however, a large segment long ago began viewing the famed director a deviant for two reasons.
  — Travis M. Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• There is a long tradition in theatre of casting men as women who are older, stricter, meaner, fatter, louder — in other words, deviant.
  — Mia J. Merrill, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• As an expert on matters of the brain, the renowned neurosurgeon should have known better than to fall into the grips of a deviant with a split personality.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• But for almost as long as they have been portrayed, they have been characterized as socially deviant or at least responsible for their kids' troubles.
  — refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
• The streets of his New York are filled with rubble, leftover from a civil war between militant Christians and social deviants.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 2 Dec. 2018
• Connor, meanwhile, is the Deckard character, an android whose job is to hunt other, malfunctioning androids, known as deviants.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 24 May 2018
• This depiction of Biden as a lovable deviant helped shape public perception of the real-life Biden as someone fun and relatable.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2020
• Paluyan’s drama Waiting for Bernau filters the country’s upheaval through the lens of a family, where the father is pro-regime and the son a deviant activist.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
• But these incidents also may point to something else — like the desire to preserve racial hierarchies by casting people of color as deviants that can be removed at any moment.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 2 July 2018
• Women’s magazines and news outlets depict women who vote Republican as deviants.
  — Carrie Lukas, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• Perhaps 20 hostages remain alive, having spent two years in underground conditions that would rival the most deviant imagination.
  — Tom Rogan, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
• The lone wolf myth also suggests that extremists are abnormal deviants with anti-social personalities.
  — Alex Hinton, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
• These portrayals were part of a system that painted African Americans as deviant and therefore deserving of subpar treatment.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• But these incidents may also point to something else — like a more explicit desire to preserve racial hierarchies by casting people of color as deviants who can be removed at any moment.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 1 Aug. 2018
• Kosek said the fire-suppression campaign reflects a belief, deeply rooted in the Forest Service’s history, that people who set fires in forests are deviants and evildoers.
  — Wendy Melillo, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
• As a revolution rises and more deviants become self-aware and long for freedom, a central conflict unsurprisingly arises between humans and their android counterparts.
  — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2018
• When justice is sought in the wake of a scam, skepticism is positioned as the norm, while gullibility is treated as a maladaptive, pathological, deviant form of socioeconomic being.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022