nonconformist

For Valerie, the price is bouncing between cheap community houses and sleeping on the street, where the bleak conditions further mold Valerie’s nonconformist personality.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

Worse, in the context of today’s flyaway stock market, he is a principled, value-minded, dogmatic nonconformist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

But Tyler, ever the nonconformist, released his eighth studio album at 06:00 EST on Monday, three days after the week's chart tracking began.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024

If you want to turn heads and keep warm this fall, look to the ultimate nonconformist, Rick Owens, for a chic solution with this dust gray knit bodysuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

Major Major’s elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Change-inducing nonconformists are out there on the edge of progress, pushing that boulder up the hill, sweating and usually being called oddballs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

At the same time, the conception of Poe the writer seems to tap into a cultural affection for outsiders, nonconformists and underdogs who ultimately prove their worth.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023

And yet, being complicated nonconformists, they weren’t uniformly of the left.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

Its cinematic specifics and pace make the reader feel the bravery and solidarity among these nonconformists who risked ridicule, ostracism and sometimes prison in trying to become their authentic selves.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

Strange rumours were soon afloat, and transcripts from Hooker’s papers got abroad, attesting that in the termination of the “Ecclesiastical Polity,” the writer had absolutely sided with the nonconformists.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli