as in bohemians
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
branded as social deviants by a society that did not value self-expression
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Recent Examples of deviants
Cool people aren't merely deviants.
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Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deviants
Noun
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Jazz is an art form with an outsized share of mavericks, rebels, and creative dissidents who’ve built careers by blazing their own particular paths.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Expect a delightful collision of NYC’s film freaks and fashionistas to descend on the movie house next week.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 Sep. 2025
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Alas, Taylor overhears and freaks out because Steven hasn't mentioned it.—
Sara Netzley,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For Mimi Pond, the desire to do a book about the Mitford sisters – six larger-than-life British eccentrics (and one brother) who created a stir in both British and American culture – was obvious.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
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Among those applauding at the end was Carmen Chaplin, one of the director’s granddaughters, and even heretics, whose faith in Chaplin is fickle, will have been swept along.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Deviants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deviants. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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