The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ABERRANT
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More clues leading to the result ABERRANT
- Be taken in by utter rogue
- Be taken in by complete rogue
- Rogue charged in a dock after taking heroin
- Jack, queen, king, ace: no trumps anomalous?
- Strange Fruit, mainly penned by suggestion of Adam Ant
- Odd priest returns holding new born
- 9 won’t start crying, which is odd
- Irregular soldiers engaged in dubious banter
- Unusual declamatory talk after President meets resistance
- markedly different from the norm
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What does ABERRANT mean?
ABERRANT noun- A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
- A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
- Differing from the norm.
- (sometimes figurative) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
- Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.