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

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

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)

Lance was a conventionalist; he clung instinctively to traditions that were getting out of date.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold

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

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