aberrant

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Then, stopping perforce, he looked at me with dancing eyes, wiped his red perspiring face with one hand, and nodded to the hat, triumphantly Such an--aberrant!"

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  1. adjective Deviating from the proper or expected course.
  2. adjective Deviating from what is normal; untrue to type.
  3. noun One that is aberrant.
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  • Brunch is an aberrant, grotesquely heavy meal, and the buffet is the worst mediocre-food-delivery-system ever invented.
  • An attractive young woman could find herself an unwitting magnet for the aberrant and the delusional, and a letter from a devoted fan could seem as fraught with potential danger as one threatening the life of the President. —  EQMM,June2007
  • The psychologists continued to monitor his aberrant behavior. —  Dragons Dawn
  • For all their talk of Democracy, Puritanism is what makes most Americans feel safe, and there, like here, it's left to striking, aberrant, individual film-makers to buck the trend—and the trend is more often than not to do with the buck. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#1
  • They avoided the error of impatience and were careful never to seem as if they were judging Bundy for the aberrant homicides he described. —  TEDBUNDY
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  1. Latin aberrāns, aberrant-, present participle of aberrāre, to go astray; see aberration.

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  1. from Latin aberran(t-)s, present participle of aberrare: see aberrate.
 

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