Sample Sentences fornonconformist (auto-selected)
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How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. (source)nonconformists = people who refuse to conform to socially approved patterns of behavior or thought
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That doesn't sound too good, sounds like an endorsement of nonconformity.† (source)
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According to Wall's History of Gravesend, N.H., the Rev. John Wheelwright had been a good minister of the English church until he began to "question the authority of certain dogmas"; he became a Puritan, and was thereafter "silenced by the ecclesiastical powers, for nonconformity."† (source)
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Major Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.† (source)
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I felt like it was keeping a part of my brain alive that would otherwise lie completely dormant—even in prison you had to work at being a nonconformist.† (source)
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She remembered when Mr. Griffith from the Nonconformist chapel had been invited to speak in the parish church.† (source)
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He was the undisciplined, recalcitrant, nonconformist, politically incorrect free spirit I had always wanted to be, had I been brave enough, and I took vicarious joy in his unbridled verve.† (source)
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Mica Area High School—MAHS—was not exactly a hotbed of nonconformity.† (source)
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Lawrence's people keep refusing to behave, to submit to convention, to act in a way that conforms to expectations, even expectations of other nonconformists.† (source)
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He was a thick, ruddy man, the sort of Englishman one sees in the Midlands, the sort that is either very Non-Conformist or very alcoholic, and George William was not Non-Conformist.† (source)
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Women are quicker than men to adopt "prestige forms" of language, but also quicker to adopt symbols of nonconformism, new or "stigmatized forms" that can acquire a kind of "covert prestige."† (source)
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In Philadelphia, Labov identified a particular type of woman, working-class, well established in her community, who took pleasure in being nonconformist and was strong enough to influence others.† (source)
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She was far from being seriously concerned about his nonconformity.† (source)
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"We have found out ...that we cannot trust some people who are nonconformists," declared Ray Kroc, one of the founders of McDonald's, angered by some of his franchisees.† (source)
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However it was, he mechanically rose, and sleepily wondering what could be in the wind, betook himself to the designated place, a narrow platform, one of six, outside of the high bulwarks and screened by the great dead-eyes and multiple columned lanyards of the shrouds and back-stays; and, in a great war-ship of that time, of dimensions commensurate with the hull's magnitude; a tarry balcony, in short, overhanging the sea, and so secluded that one mariner of the Indomitable, a non-conformist old tar of a serious turn, made it even in daytime his private oratory.† (source)
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She had, as the English would say, the Nonconformist temperament.† (source)
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