How to Use deviance in a Sentence

deviance

noun

• Schools in the country will also remain open, a deviance from the first round of quarantines.
  — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2020
• For all the deviance, the play's ambitions remain rooted to the study of its characters.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2018
• Until then, the raw meat boys will see themselves as outsiders, and outsiders breed deviance.
  — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
• Oleksiy Makeev, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany was also there, and raised his fist in deviance when the camera panned to him.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• Gender traitors and rebels are hanged on the wall, a continual threat that any deviance from Gilead will not be tolerated.
  — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
• She's made to watch a weird short film about deviance, which happens to star Moose and Kevin as two young men who forgo socializing with women to spend time alone together.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2018
• That gave researchers a chance to see whether any deviance from vaccination schedules or logistics issues for the shot, which has to be stored frozen, would change outcomes.
  — Jason Gale, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2021
• These efforts helped mainstream the idea working on one's physique was a sign of normal male sexuality, not deviance.
  — Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
• One study found that people littered in their work environments as an act of deviance against their employer.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2023
• The film’s deviance amounts to little more than a few campy in-jokes: when the villain breaks into Ana and Christian's penthouse, a member of their security detail pins him down and laments her lack of restraints.
  — Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
• Hartman looks at women who have been narrated in terms of deviance and deprivation, and asks us to see their lives as experiments in new kinds of freedom and loving.
  — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• Early urban reformers, such as Jacob Riis and Jane Addams in the first decades of the twentieth century, were quick to link urban blight and social deviance.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Any minor deviance from the manager’s strategy will be perceived as a personal attack and will be met with punishment.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022
• A barricade of deviance and grit kept much of the straight world out, protecting the neighborhood’s unconventional character.
  — Jeremiah Moss, Longreads, 24 July 2017
• Her latest veers more toward the comic camp, exploring raunchy proclivities and unbelievable deviances in a trailer park of the near future.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 18 May 2017
• Marijuana figures sharply in those stereotypes, feeding myths of black social deviance.
  — Syreeta McFadden, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2021
• Instead, partly by lifting the pressure of secrecy and diminishing the feeling of deviance, the talk will loosen the hold of hallucinations and, crucially, the grip of isolation.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022
• Sloman, who had a master’s degree in deviance and criminology from the University of Wisconsin, had begun his time on the tour reporting for Rolling Stone.
  — Robert Greenfield, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
• The reason reality shows about hoarding flourished a decade ago, the critic Scott Herring has argued, is that hoarding was a special case in which the larger culture tipped into definable deviance.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• The reason reality shows about hoarding flourished a decade ago, the critic Scott Herring has argued, is that hoarding was a special case in which the larger culture tipped into definable deviance.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• The science of the matter is unequivocal: Addiction is a chronic and treatable medical condition, not a weakness of will or character or a form of social deviance.
  — Nora D. Volkow, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2021
• Criminologists have long known that networks play an important role in deviance and violence.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Most of Trump’s loyal Republican officials and thought leaders have allowed the normalization of his political deviance by their deeds and failure to speak out.
  — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Reed combined literary aspirations with a fearless eye for deviance and, by extension, a staunch defense of freedom of expression.
  — James Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• Wearing a set of horns on his head, with a pair of hooves replacing his feet, the singer intentionally evokes the image of Baphomet, an ancient pagan deity often considered a symbol of pluralism and deviance from societal norms.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2022
• Lopez, however, brings such a breathless, seemingly effortless blend of manic desperation, sincerity, and deviance to Hustlers that to nominate anyone else who doesn’t bring at least that caliber to the screen is just a crime.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2020
• In places like John Calvin’s Geneva, efforts to enforce moral discipline ranged from the obvious (punishing sexual deviance) to the odd (making bibles available at pubs to encourage spiritual reflection).
  — Shadi Hamid, The Atlantic, 24 May 2017
• Their stories have been elevated by Cruella’s delicious deviance.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• This Catholic form of revanchism would obliterate church-state barriers and superimpose a terrestrial layer of morality and control, under the auspices of natural law, to root out deviance and knit together the republic.
  — Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024