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unconventionality

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








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Sometime in my late teens, I dedicated myself to choosing small paths of unconventionality as a personal rebellion, as much as capitalism and social conditioning would allow.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2025

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

From Salon Feb. 14, 2024

If pop has begun embracing a “genreless” approach to music, it seems like that unconventionality is opening doors for country as well — and it is accounting for the music’s popularity.

From Seattle Times Jan. 17, 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

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

He chafed and groaned and found his pain sometimes almost more than he could bear under the audacious unconventionalities of Helena Langley.

From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy

So great and so discriminating and so self-sacrificing was his charity, that it would almost plead atonement for a million such unconventionalities as his.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes

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 George Saintsbury

Gertrude suppressed her astonishment; she felt somehow overawed by the unconventionalities of the West.

From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman




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