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unconventionality

[uhn-kuhn-ven-shuh-nal-i-tee] / ˌʌn kənˌvɛn ʃəˈnæl ɪ ti /








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Santee Alley was born out of unconventionality with its makeshift stores designed to break retail rules.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

Also, working from home, together, was seen as exciting to some — but the unconventionality of it all eventually faded.

From Salon Feb. 14, 2024

With Hawkins’s alternately elfin and flinty performance at its center, “The Lost King” winds up being a paean to amateurism and unconventionality.

From Washington Post Mar. 21, 2023

Frank, whom I studied in depth since the 1990s, has attracted me specifically because of the strangeness and unconventionality that surrounds him.

From Seattle Times Apr. 15, 2022

Another was that her eldest daughter married a severe young man with jet-black hair and an appetite for unconventionality.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Among the many unconventionalities of Donald Trump’s campaign was the way he used his daughter as a surrogate spouse.

From Slate Nov. 11, 2016

Her life was full of eager unconventionalities that drew down on her the frequent distrust of her co-religionists and fellow-townsmen.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

Mount Henneth is perhaps the liveliest of all: though its liveliness is partly achieved by less merely extravagant unconventionalities than this.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

Do the paternal unconventionalities countenance posing for the acad�mie?

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Miss Alathea, on the day after the great race, sat waiting for the Colonel in the handsome old library of Woodlawn, worrying about her unconventionalities of the preceding day.

From In Old Kentucky by Marshall, Edward




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