aberration

"Allowing millions of human beings to live -- and die -- victims of hunger is a collective failure, an ethical aberration, a historical sin," Leo said in a speech at the Rome-based UN agricultural agency.

And mind you, those guys on my road are anything but aberrations.

“Those unresolved mental health challenges led defendant to convey the fake threat as an excuse to get out of an ongoing meeting. That decision was misguided and dangerous, but it was also an aberration.”

It has been one of its recurring features, not an aberration but a persistent force, destructive and yet oddly creative, producing new boundaries and new regimes.

To them, even after eight years of experience, the president is some type of sui generis figure, an aberration in American politics and culture.