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Among other things, he was rigorously conventional and had quickly accommodated himself to McGraw-Hill's tidy, colorless and archconservative mold.
p. 18.1 *

conventional = normal (behaved in a typical manner)
A straightforward, conventional rape would have done less violation to her spirit and identity, she thought later, would have filled her with less horror and revulsion.
p. 99.8

conventional = normal or typical
Add to this indwelling shame of the rape the unconventional, to say the least, the grotesque way she had been attacked—and the embarrassment she felt at having to tell Blackstock became nearly insupportable.
p. 105.6

unconventional = not regarded as normal

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconventional means not and reverses the meaning of conventional. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
I never saw a single hooker—the conventional neighborhood and the tired and baggy clientele precluded even the idea of any such sport—but there were, this special evening, two smiling nuns who bore down on Sophie and me with some kind of rattling tin-plated chalice and a murmured plea for charity, in the name of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
p. 212.9

conventional = normal or typical
A secretary told me that Larry was in Toronto, where he was attending a professional convention.
p. 478.6 *

convention = large conference or meeting
In doing so I actually stroke her ass somewhat slightly and the responsive squeeze she gives my hand with her arm, also the glimmer in those dark oriental eyes as she impishly gazes up at me, makes me certain that I have finally, miraculously discovered a woman free of the horrendous conventions and pieties that afflict this hypocritical culture of ours ... I am a little mortified to discover that almost none of the above was apparently written with the faintest trace of irony (I actually was capable of "somewhat slightly"!)†
p. 139.9
My father muttered a few conventionally sympathetic words, then fell silent.†
p. 326.1

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(1) (convention as in: teacher's convention)
a large conference or meeting
(2) (convention as in: conventional behavior)
something regarded as normal or typical
(3) (convention as in: The Geneva Convention)
a written international agreement
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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