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

"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

Laugh at him as a limited man, a moralist, conventionalist, an opportunist, a formalist.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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