Hierarchists trust experts, but believe social deviancy is very risky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth of the Rational..., Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Egalitarians and communitarians worry about technology, but think that social deviancy is no big deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth of the Rational..., Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Homosexuality has always been taboo in the country, but a surge of killings followed religious leaders 'sermons condemning "deviancy".    From Wordnik.com.  [Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News] Reference

Your goal has been to define Iranian deviancy down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Triumph] Reference

It'll show whether there's any active deviancy left or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2005] Reference

Remember that term Moynihan coined, "defining deviancy down"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Maher: Americans Love Torture] Reference

Just more examples to the breadth of the spectrum of deviancy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both "Aberrant Behavior," But They're At "Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum"] Reference

Not about deviancy versus no deviance, or encouraging deviancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2004] Reference

Certain people's deviancy locks on to different aspects of this process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jigsaw Man]

You know, Pat Moynihan had a-- coined the phrase, "defining deviancy down.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2007] Reference

In his era of spoiled, surly athletes, fans have defined deviancy down to zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sweet, And Serene, Scientist] Reference

Rock Band I hardly need to explain the epidemic deviancy behind rock 'n' roll music.    From Wordnik.com.  [More 'Filthy' Games to Drive Fox News Crazy] Reference

Obama has defined deviancy up by minimizing Geithner's clearly intentional cheating.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Obama Fails his First Hard Choice] Reference

"They nurture their deviancy like a drug addict, and can't wait to get their next hit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In 1993, the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the term "defining deviancy down.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Today’s ‘Culture of Poverty’] Reference

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan is widely credited with the phrase "defining deviancy down.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Amitai Etzioni: Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan?] Reference

Conservatives try to blame increasing divorce rates on homosexuality, deviancy, and liberalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [nessus Diary Entry] Reference

Maybe a genuine return to a Tory hardline on such deviancy would attract some back to the fold.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

And you see it in terms of his writings on crime for example, the defining deviancy down writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazio's Role Model? Hold Onto Your Hats: It's Senator D'Amato] Reference

We have been, quote, to use his phrase -- "defining deviancy down" below the threshold of acceptability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks At Moynihan Reception] Reference

Senator Moynihan wrote a very powerful article just a couple of weeks ago on how we have defined deviancy down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nafta Press Conference] Reference

As this aberrant or deviant behavior increases, society redefines what it considers excess ... in short defining deviancy down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Cunningham: Farce Turns To Tragedy] Reference

Through the decades of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, African-Americans were transformed into the poster group for racial deviancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: President Obama Confronts Holocaust Evil, Now Confront Slavery Evil] Reference

Last winter Senator Moynihan wrote, and I quote, "We have been redefining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks At Moynihan Reception] Reference