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deviancy

/dee-vee-uhns/US // ˈdi vi əns //UK // (ˈdiːvɪəns) //

背叛行为,恶魔行为,魔鬼行为,偏差

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : deviant quality or state.
    • : deviant behavior.

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Examples

  • Duggar is playing on the old and false conservative conflation of non-heteronormativity with criminal deviancy.

  • The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously indicted the cultural condition of “defining deviancy down.”

  • His computer was filled with content suggesting sexual deviancy or erotic artistry, depending on your point of view.

  • The late Sen. Pat Moynihan wrote of “defining deviancy downward.”