conventionalist

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

Barriovero, a conventionalist, according to Grandmontagne—yes, and how keen the scent of this American for such matters!—attended the opening of a radical club in the Calle del Príncipe with a party of friends.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

"You're only a conventionalist, like everybody else—you're not a moralist."

From Sally Bishop A Romance by Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)

"After all, you're a conventionalist, and I rather thought you were not."

From Lister's Great Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

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 Skinner, Constance Lindsay