conventional
adjective
conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste.
conventionalist
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a word derived from
conventional.
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a word derived from
conventionalism.
Example Sentences
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Still, beyond collectability, style and functionality, Eastside Golf’s founders believe there are bigger takeaways for the conventionalist sport.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
He would have been a conventionalist and epicurean, unless he had been a seer.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
Lance was a conventionalist; he clung instinctively to traditions that were getting out of date.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
The conventionalist would seek it in moral obliquity; the radical, in a temperament that is irked by the superficialities that comprise so large a part of conventional standards.
From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner
"After all, you're a conventionalist, and I rather thought you were not."
From Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss
