deviant - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • sexual: Some had been communists but others had been fascists, alcoholics and sexual deviants.
  • social: The social deviants were the dispossessed, those whose very existence served as a constant reminder of the frailty of power.
  • such: A curfew is set to ensure that any such deviants will be put away for such an anti-social act.
  • vulgar: God have mercy on those in charge for allowing these vulgar deviants inside the door of your church buildings.
  • sick: Don`t go for a confrontation with the sick deviants, that is probably what they want.

Modifies a noun

  • stimulus: MMNm was obtained by subtracting the response to the standard stimuli from that to the deviant stimuli.
  • behavior: Children with deviant behavior prevent the realization of these values.
  • behavior: Explain the term, " deviant behavior " , through use of an example.
  • version: The earliest church stood against this deviant version of authentic Christianity.
  • case: Within these ' types ' , reasons given by the asthmatics for their ' position ' were examined - with deviant cases accounted for.
  • activity: Either way we have to accept that crime isn't just a deviant activity.

Modifying Another Word

  • sexually: It may be that the Government has in mind personality disordered individuals with sexually deviant behaviors.
  • highly: Most inhabitants of present day New York would be regarded as highly deviant by the Pilgrim Fathers, and vise versa.
  • somewhat: The background colors are somewhat deviant, but the offset of the font color gives it a alomst homey feeling.
  • extremely: The mean is trimmed since some incorrect ellipse fits produce extremely deviant parameter estimates that have a large influence on the mean.

Used with adjective complement

  • consider: What some individuals considered deviant, others did not.

Preposition: of

  • kind: Deviants of all kinds swiftly became solely responsible for any actions which conflicted with the values of the Stalinist regime.

Preposition: with

  • dummy: I know... It's a deviant with a dummy!

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