deviancy

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who represented New York for nearly a quarter century, warned decades ago about the tendency to “define deviancy down” and normalize actions that are anything but normal.

If liars, cheaters and tax evaders can be exonerated, then Trump has symbolically defined our national deviancy down to his own level, and of course wins thereby.

Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were alleged to promote sexual deviancy and, as a resulting sanction from God, were blamed for bringing about the plague.

In October 2022, he told a Polish Catholic radio station that LGBT+ was "institutionalised deviancy".

A former criminology professor who specialized in social deviancy and “went on an arson spree” was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison after he admitted to setting four fires in California in 2021, prosecutors said.