English-French translations for deviant

• déviant
  La route offre aux conducteurs individuels trop de liberté d’agir de manière dangereuse et déviante. Roads offer individual drivers too much freedom for dangerous and deviant behaviour.
  C'est le seul moyen pour que la mobilité sur le marché de l'emploi ne génère pas de groupes socialement exclus, dont le comportement deviendra, tôt ou tard, déviant. This is the only way in which mobility on the labour market will not generate socially excluded groups, whose behaviour becomes deviant sooner or later.
  Une fois arrivés, ils sont exploités non seulement pour le travail, mais aussi pour diverses pratiques déviantes, y compris le sexe, la pédophilie et la pornographie infantile. There, they are exploited not only for work, but also for various deviant practices, including sexual practices, paedophilia and child pornography.
• aberrant

Definition of deviant

• Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard
• A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior
• A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern

Examples

• At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.
• He was branded as a deviant and ostracized
• As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant

Related words

• deviancy
• deviance
• deviant behaviour