Synonyms for deviant
ˈdi vi əntde·viant

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1. pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerateadjective

   a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

   Synonyms:
   pervert, deviate, degenerate

   Antonyms:
   normal

2. aberrant, deviant, deviateadjective

   markedly different from an accepted norm

   "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

   Synonyms:
   aberrant, deviate

   Antonyms:
   normal

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1. List of paraphrases for "deviant":

   errant, abnormal, devious, pervert

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1. David Lee:

   You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

2. Police Cmdr. Greg McEachern:

   These assaults were not date rapes. They were not acquaintance rapes. These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until it was caught.

3. Imohimi Edgal:

   It is the duty of everybody, not only the police, to ensure that such antisocial behavior, such social vices, such crimes, are checked so that we can create communities that protect our children from such deviant behavior.

4. Jeffrey Swanson:

   If we were to cure mental illness, all of it, tomorrow, how much of our violence problem would go down ? It would go down about 4 percent, the mass shooters, with some exception, have been angry, alienated, emotionally trouble young men who act out these incredibly deviant cultural scripts and have access to firearms.

5. Caitlin Ryan:

   Homosexuality was considered a mental illness, deviant and immoral, if it were not for the early work of Reuters Health and social systems to change that, I don’t think we would have made the advances that we’ve made since then.