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  • noun Plural form of nonconformist.

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Examples

  • I'm glad there is some hint of organization among the freethinkers these days - it seems often that the dogmatic collectives have the benefit of organization over us - an organization of 'nonconformists' is a bit of an oxymoron if you think about it.

    Blevkog 2009

  • It isn't so much that the novel is short on "satiric bite" as that ultimately it is merely satire, a relatively mild critique of post-9/11 New York under Bloomberg, which has become inhospitable to its misfits and nonconformists.

    Detecting a Wrongness 2010

  • Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half.

    Violence Vanquished Steven Pinker 2011

  • Item: his brother is most likely a Catholic, as are his mother, sister, chief mistress (she keeps a prie-Dieu in her bedroom now), and wife, and he is arguing with Parliament over the nonconformists (he is for toleration, bravo!)

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • It isn't so much that the novel is short on "satiric bite" as that ultimately it is merely satire, a relatively mild critique of post-9/11 New York under Bloomberg, which has become inhospitable to its misfits and nonconformists.

    The Reading Experience 2010

  • The café -- innocuously tucked in amid the strip malls along Busch Boulevard -- attracts local musicians, poets and political nonconformists.

    Pat LaMarche: The Oil Spill Is Our Dust Bowl Pat LaMarche 2011

  • The nonconformists have a much stricter set of rules to follow than everyone else.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Herd of Individualists, Wolfman Edition 2010

  • It isn't so much that the novel is short on "satiric bite" as that ultimately it is merely satire, a relatively mild critique of post-9/11 New York under Bloomberg, which has become inhospitable to its misfits and nonconformists.

    Postmodernism 2010

  • The café -- innocuously tucked in amid the strip malls along Busch Boulevard -- attracts local musicians, poets and political nonconformists.

    Pat LaMarche: The Oil Spill Is Our Dust Bowl Pat LaMarche 2011

  • It isn't so much that the novel is short on "satiric bite" as that ultimately it is merely satire, a relatively mild critique of post-9/11 New York under Bloomberg, which has become inhospitable to its misfits and nonconformists.

    April 2010 2010

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