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conformist

/kuhn-fawr-mist/US // kənˈfɔr mɪst //UK // (kənˈfɔːmɪst) //

保守主义者,保守派,守旧派,保守主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who conforms, especially unquestioningly, to the usual practices or standards of a group, society, etc.
    • : a person who conforms to the usages of an established church, especially the Church of England.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or characterized by conforming, especially in action or appearance.

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Examples

  • It’s a rhetorical trick that allows him to attack anybody who disagrees with him as a mindless conformist.

  • In this universe, you are, says Cogswell, “showered with love,” when you adhere to the right beliefs, “and then showered with hate when you go against the group,” reinforcing a common and conformist view of all-things-saucer.

  • “I find myself and my peers thinking, ‘This current generation is so corporate, so conformist, so apolitical,’” Wolf says.

  • It becomes a non-conformist activity, reading becomes a risk.

  • We see glimpses of your former, less conformist self, reemerging, which has plans to stick around.

  • The man lives a very conformist lifestyle—fashioning his apartment like an IKEA catalog, obeying his tyrannical boss, etc.

  • Cozens has a conscience—a conformist conscience—and is a first-class season-ticket holder.

  • He threatened to punish any man "who gave two pence" toward the support of a Non-conformist minister.

  • Due to the conformist spirit of the dominant crowd, native-born Americans are losing their intellectual leadership.

  • Now, thousands of Non-conformist chapels proclaim its meaning gone, and its language an affectation and an insolence.

  • A patent dated April 9th of that year required that within six weeks all parishes should instal conformist clergy or close.