deviance

Example Sentences

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Risky decisions can became routine at any workplace, she suggests, labeling this effect the “normalization of deviance.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Others reacted with homophobic distaste to what they saw as disorderly expressions of anger and sexual deviance in an era when the gay male body was largely feared.

From New York Times

This is a queer noir world, full of inexplicable violence, an encyclopedia’s worth of sexual deviance and a deeply flawed, untrusting and untrustworthy antihero.

From New York Times

While the latter scenario was obviously beneficial, employees who did not believe there was a sincere sense of companionship with humble leaders exhibited "subordinate psychological entitlement, which in turn increases workplace deviance."

From Salon

Donald Trump, the Republican-fascists, the larger white right and those individuals and groups that have either tacitly or actively aided them have normalized political deviance in America.

From Salon