Sample Sentences for
orthodox
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    My parents are accustomed to my challenging their more orthodox views.
    orthodox = normal or traditional
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    A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy.  (source)
    orthodox = conservative
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    Surely the evening's proceedings are scarcely orthodox, from a medical point of view.  (source)
    orthodox = normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)
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    I was born an Orthodox Jew  (source)
    Orthodox = conforming to traditional religious practices
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    Unorthodox, but what a stroke of inspiration,  (source)
    Unorthodox = not what is commonly done
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The teachings of Jesus therefore represented a liberation from the orthodoxy of Judaism.  (source)
    orthodoxy = a commonly accepted belief or practice
    standard suffix: The suffix "-y", converts the adjective (orthodox) into a noun. This is the same pattern you see with the words honesty and modesty.
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    I didn't know what to make of his gesture save its unorthodoxy, its colloquial and unprofessional tone.  (source)
    unorthodoxy = unusualness (lack of normality)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodoxy means not and reverses the meaning of orthodoxy. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Gillingham looked at him, and wondered whether it would ever happen that the reactionary spirit induced by the world's sneers and his own physical wishes would make Phillotson more orthodoxly cruel to her than he had erstwhile been informally and perversely kind.†  (source)
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    They are more accepted in France, where the doctors are less prone to craven orthodoxies.†  (source)
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    In an intellectual way, Syme was venomously orthodox.  (source)
    orthodox = believed in commonly accepted (and acceptable) ideas
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    He fought like a demon, whirling through the defenders' ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic.  (source)
    unorthodox = unusual
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    —orthodoxy's my doxy.  (source)
    orthodoxy = commonly accepted beliefs and behaviors
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    Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.  (source)
    Unorthodoxy = unusual beliefs or practices
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