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conventional
adjective
following accepted customs and proprieties
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adjective
following accepted customs and proprieties
“conventional wisdom”
adjective
unimaginative and conformist
“conventional bourgeois lives”
adjective
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
“conventional warfare”
adjective
in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
“a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white”
adjective
rigidly formal or bound by convention
“their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt”
adjective
conforming with accepted standards
“a conventional view of the world”
adjective
represented in simplified or symbolic form
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conventional wisdom
she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
conventional forms of address
conventional bourgeois lives
conventional attitudes
conventional warfare
conventional weapons
a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white
the conventional handshake
their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt
a conventional view of the world
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