aberrance

• “The report, produced by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that the high incidence of sexual abuse by priests reflected the growing aberrance of American society in general during that period, including "drug use and crime, as well as changes in social behavior, such as an increase in premarital sexual behavior and divorce.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Sexual License of the 1960s Does Not Excuse Pedophile Priests

• “Ordinarily, she was by far the more sensitive of them, noticing instantly any behavioral aberrance, making snap judgments based on intuition, which were usually correct.”

  Fictionaut: Baby Games

• “Ask Huck at what end of the spectrum of aberrance lies the act of knifing and stoning a stray dog to death as it swings by it's legs hung from a tree.”

  Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both "Aberrant Behavior," But They're At "Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum"

• “A lot of people associate a taste for grindhouse movies with the tiresome condescension of the 'so-bad-it's-good' ethos, but Tarantino understands the aesthetics of aberrance that animated the explorations of so-called trash hounds.”

  GreenCine Daily: Grindhouse, 4/4.

• “He said this clinically, casually, as if noting a statistical aberrance he hoped to study in his spare time.”

  Simon & Schuster: Skinned

• “Early conditioning in this household setting will produce later aberrance, guaranteed.”

  "Sperm cells created from female embryo."

• “Dorothy used the word "irregular" in the titles of three of her poems, but "Irregular Verses" bears the most glaring metrical aberrance of the three: the moment in line 43, the only line of heptameter in the poem: "Though in our riper years we each pursued a different way.”

  'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes

• “For all its over-the-top aberrance and brash transgressiveness, GTA IV doesn't really wrestle with the radiant feverish nightmare labyrinth that post-9/11 America has become.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Grand,' but No 'Godfather'

• “Sandbox games (which is a fancy way of saying a game where you can ignore the game's objectives) shot through with criminal aberrance have always been a weakness of mine.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Grand,' but No 'Godfather'

• “Frankenstein's beautiful mother around William's neck, reminding him of his aberrance, his monstrosity: A feminized image of the proper body provokes the monster to murder little William, an image that deploys a particular ideology of gender to secure the devaluation of defiant flesh.”

  Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800

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