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deviancy Vox populi A major abnormality, usually understood to be mental. See Paraphilia, Sexual deviancy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| That sort of suspicion, denunciation, and searching out of deviancy makes me think of things like the witch trials in Salem. Still, our assault on decorum is defining deviancy down, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer has pointed out that alongside of the social trend of "defining deviancy down," is the movement to "define deviancy up. |
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