What's the difference between deviant and perverse?

Deviant


Definition:

  • (a.) Deviating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover, not all investigators have ensured that schizophrenic subjects belong to that group which does show deviant speech structures.
  • (2) Questionnaire responses from upper-status junior and senior high school students show the importance of perceived parental pressure in understanding adolescent self-esteem and deviant behavior.
  • (3) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
  • (4) It was assumed that a deviant stimulus can elicit a MMN only when the neuronal representation of the previous standard stimulus still exists.
  • (5) Previous experiments with picture sorting and matching tasks have shown aphasics to give more deviant responses than controls when decisions require the identification of single features of concepts, whereas their responses are close to normal whenever decisions have to be based on the relative overlap of broad associative fields.
  • (6) Therefore, the girls in the present study might be either more psychiatrically disturbed or have more deviant personalities than the boys, which might explain why our hypothesis about a lower thrombocyte MAO activity in the adolescents with externalizing symptoms (group I) was verified only in the girls.
  • (7) Several of them appeared to be sexually deviant, although they did not meet DSM-III-R criteria for a diagnosis of paraphilia.
  • (8) This study was conducted to determine whether deviant-speaking children can understand their own speech productions when these productions are presented to them from an external source (tape recorder).
  • (9) We conclude that immune privilege is extended to histoincompatible developing retinal transplants placed in the AC of the eye, and that these allografts induce a deviant systemic immune response characterized by impaired expression of delayed hypersensitivity and generation of splenic suppressor cells.
  • (10) The present study examined the vigilance performance of 16 behaviorally deviant and 16 nodeviant children and suggested that the vigilance paradigm might serve as a basis for a standardized test of continuous attention in children.
  • (11) For deviant kel values of a one-compartment model, the most accurate recovery of ko occurred with the area function method and nonlinear least-squares regression, followed by the Wagner-Nelson and moment analysis methods.
  • (12) The deviant stimuli elicited in addition to N100m a second deflection, MMNm, peaking at about 200 msec.
  • (13) However, the stress associated with maternally toxic doses can be expected to result in associated, often transient, fetal abnormalities that may not be the result of deviant organogenesis.
  • (14) The testosterone level in deviant males was about five times higher than that of normal displaying males.
  • (15) Ahmadinejad's unwavering support for Mashaei, who is accused of running a "deviant current", has cost him a great deal of influence over Iranian politics and has put him at adds with Khamenei.
  • (16) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
  • (17) application of 1-5HTP represents a practicable strategy for investigating biochemical hypotheses as to serotonin mediated normal and deviant human behaviour, especially in affective disorders.
  • (18) The aggressive teenagers differed from the non-aggressive subjects firstly in their alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, and secondly with respect to other deviant behaviour, such as stealing, running away from home or violent victimization.
  • (19) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
  • (20) This work identified an important attitude of Nigerians namely that behaviour is controlled from outside including deviant behaviour.

Perverse


Definition:

  • (a.) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
  • (a.) Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
  • (2) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
  • (3) That, though, is a perverse way of looking at things.
  • (4) chocolatiers, I very much enjoy your chocolates but am forced to eat them blindfold because of your perverse decision to cast them into the shapes of seafood.
  • (5) It was a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life, the first of his many films in which Chabrol presents an opposition between a Dionysian character (often called Paul or Popaul) and an Apollonian one (often called Charles), the defender of the status quo.
  • (6) It is difficult for me to resist a slight sense of envy for those anxiously awaiting A-level results this morning, although this may seem perverse.
  • (7) (Although traffic noise, perversely, might help it.)
  • (8) Perversity--the "recruitment of love at the service of aggression"--as a threat to the basic fabric of a couple's love life is one alternative to the normal channels for elaboration of aggression in their relationship.
  • (9) The killing of badgers to somehow “save” dairy and beef cows is perverse.
  • (10) Hall blamed the "perverse incentives" created by the government's targets as the cause of the rush of multiple entries.
  • (11) There is a perverse irony that people who have cracked their iPhones are now being targeted by hackers.
  • (12) The prednisolone test conducted for evaluation of bone-marrow pool of neutrophils has revealed perversed leucocytic reaction in 39.6% of patients.
  • (13) Relating the aggressive instinct to narcissism and the sexual instinct to perversion, two modes of functioning are presented which have some points in common and some diverging but which show the dynamics involved in physical and sexual abuse.
  • (14) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
  • (15) Social and cultural aspects, a) habits and traditions, b) religious believes, c) tabues, d) nutrition faddism, e) prejudice, aversions and perversions, f) social value of foods, g) industrialized foods.
  • (16) Soubry compared nicotine to heroin as she spoke of how she found it difficult to give up smoking because nicotine is a "dreadful substance" that creates a "perverse psychology of smoking".
  • (17) And then, instead of destroying the text, he perversely deposited the manuscript in a Swiss bank vault in the custody of his wife and son.
  • (18) In a perverse way, it’s a backhanded compliment to what is after all a young coach (he’ll turn 41 at the end of the month) that Kreis, at RSL, gets treated as part of the MLS furniture.
  • (19) The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.
  • (20) It is typical of the perverse misalliance that it contains a refusal to participate, with all the attendant disinterest and deadness and lack of creativity usually associated with that condition.