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Definitionadj. not conforming to accepted rules or standards
Last update: July 27, 2015
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My father has unconventional views on women's liberty. [Please select]
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I have no doubt that al-Qaeda would use unconventional weapons if it possessed the capability to do so. [adjective]
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Its delightfully eccentric design will appeal to unconventional people who enjoy the unusual. [adjective]
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From the first his professorial lectures were conspicuous for the unconventional enthusiasm with which he endeavoured to revivify the study of the classics; and his growing reputation, added to the attention excited by a translation of Aeschylus which he published in 1850, led to his appointment in 1852 to the professorship of Greek at Edinburgh University, in succession to George Dunbar, a post which he continued to hold for thirty years. [Please select]
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” “She is usually met under rather unconventional circumstances, I believe,” he remarked dryly. [Please select]
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Well, we do certainly meet under the most unusual, not to say unconventional, circumstances, Squire Glenarm. [Please select]
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"You see, she's rather wild--a little unconventional--and I've never made love even to a sempstress." [Please select]
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She had done an unconventional thing for the sake of a principle. [Please select]
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Esme Darlington, who's an old friend of hers, thinks her too unconventional for a diplomatist's wife. [Please select]
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She's so infernally unconventional and a jury's so infernally conventional that I can't help being afraid. [Please select]
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