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Meanings of conventionality in English
Usage of conventionality in English
1
Alec was enjoying the humour of poking up the giant of conventionality.
2
In this unbounded, uncharted freedom the shackles of conventionality fell from him.
3
For the moment Maud Barrington had flung off the bonds of conventionality.
4
She was apparently in the highest spirits, eager to overstep all conventionality.
5
There was much conventionality in her, though she did not know it.
6
But this is conventionality, and conventionality has to be thanked for it.
7
But he had a wish to outrage his own sense of conventionality.
8
As Miss Van Tuyn said this she marvelled at her own conventionality.
9
She did not demand too much virtue or require too much conventionality.
10
Of course, to a certain extent, conventionality is a useful, peaceful thing.
11
There is no absurd conventionality, tacking a spinster to a married woman.'
12
But the reality struck conventionality clean out of the realm of the possible.
13
The traditional formality and conventionality of the English are traditions only.
14
You cannot have the security of conventionality along with the self-respect of sincerity.
15
Our submergence in a sea of conventionality of almost impenetrable density.
16
She had expected him; there was not breathing-space for conventionality between these two.
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Translations for conventionality
Portuguese
Conventionality through the time
Conventionality across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common