conventionalist

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Noun
  • That was a bit of a turnoff for this old traditionalist, who thinks politics has gotten too coarse and foul-mouthed.
    George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That was a bit of a turnoff for this old traditionalist, who thinks politics has gotten too coarse and foul-mouthed.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Published 70 years ago, this shocking poem was a powerful rebuke to conformists in 1950s America.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 27 Sep. 2025
  • To me, an American woman in the early 21st century, prickly and free-spirited Lady Murasaki now appears to have been chafing under conformist pressures in the Heian court.
    Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Most of his followers are locals or close to local.
    Max Darrow, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Texas contends Villarreal gained Facebook followers by getting police officers to tell her the identities of a person who killed himself by jumping off a Laredo overpass and of a family involved in a car accident.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
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“Conventionalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionalist. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.

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