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

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

"Not at all," said Barriovero the conventionalist, very gravely.

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)

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)