deviant [ˈdiːvɪənt] adjetivodesviado(a), anómalo(a)
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deviant [ˈdiːvɪənt]
adjective
(gen) also (Psychology and Psychiatry) (Ling) desviado the well-known Dutch `tolerance" and tendency to accept deviant minorities Countercultural and deviant styles # from Teddy boys' drapes to CND duffel coats # were familiar in the 1950s and 1960s They knew nothing about Isma'ilism as a deviant form of Islam to label a form of sexual behavior as deviant is dangerous
noun
persona de conducta desviada Leavis can scarcely be said to have been a deviant in relation to a group to which he did not belong Such a view reached its nadir in Russia in the classification of political deviants as mentally deranged child abusers were now routinely labelled as social deviants and either institutionalized or supervised
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