deviant
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Thompson was part of the wave of artists in the 1950s who explored the darker, deviant impulses of American life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
"The only way I could describe it is it was just deviant," she tells us - using that word without any knowledge of the GSK research which had established a link with such behaviour.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
I think about her evolution of being comfortable in our own skin and being deviant.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2024
That gave people an excuse to start pulling the masks down and indulging in the deviant behaviors often celebrated by drill rappers.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
It's a strange kind of lust: K-hunger, Meg-hunger; but it's a shared disease; it can kill parties dead, as conversation spirals into the deepest and most deviant recesses of software releases and expensive peripherals....
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
The aberrant child vampire highlights inequality, a deviant even among deviants.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
He had grown up in India but was studying sociology in London and had been awarded a grant to research political "deviants".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2022
Whereas each Eternal has a more elaborate power when in battle with deviants, Gilgamesh just punches them in the face really hard.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021
As always these are real questions submitted by the collection of deviants and devotees known as my Twitter followers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2019
I can understand why things are so strict here, because it is the best school around for the rich deviants of tomorrow.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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