How to Use conformist in a Sentence

conformist

1 of 2 noun
  • The middle part of society is composed of conformists, most of whom are passive but some are active.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • For both active Putin supporters and passive conformists, the war is no longer just a part of everyday existence.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This new way of thinking (and dressing) has definitely started to change fashion's tone, thanks to the new generation of non-conformists.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Among Putin’s supporters there is also a group of aggressive conformists who have become supporters of total war.
    — CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But it could just as easily be viewed through the lens of anything deemed unacceptable by society (which, in the conformist ’80s, was a long, long list).
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The solace and the pathos in Updike’s and Rosenberg’s work come from realizing that in many cases, conformists can’t win either.
    — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • His parents, both government scientists and cautious communist conformists, were alarmed.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • From being a complacent conformist to a man who seizes accountability for his destiny and doggedly pursues growth, his journey is a testament to his teachings.
    — Jon Stogan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • The setting may be out of time, but speaks to the present, as the villagers’ conservatism manifests as rejection, suspicion and persecution — treating outsiders or non-conformists as an invading pathogen.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Published 70 years ago, this shocking poem was a powerful rebuke to conformists in 1950s America.
    — Air Mail, 27 Sep. 2025

conformist

2 of 2 adjective
  • Babbitt’s conformist spirit is willing, but his flesh is weak.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • One of the biggest challenges any White racial non-conformist faces is being expelled by their tribe.
    — John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
  • There was a little reference to people who were older than me at school who impressed me, who seemed quite non-conformist.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 June 2022
  • Inspired by true events, a conformist mother who tries to fit in her neighbourhood determines to stand up to conventions to bury her son, lynched for being gay.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The idea that most of the planet followed and cared about a couple dozen people who sang songs or appeared in films will strike us as strange and embarrassingly conformist.
    — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • There’s no question where Longworth stands on the spectrum between conformist thinking and auteurist risk-taking.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Forbidden Notebook is a novel in the form of a diary kept in post-Fascist Rome by a conformist mother.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • These days, that strategy feels more conformist than revolutionary.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Something outrageous and non-conformist.
    — Tim Parker, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The results have been far from unpromising, notwithstanding the fog machine of an unimaginative and conformist press.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In the conformist eighties, Michaels largely abandoned the Andy Kaufman strain of his formula.
    — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Described as anti-conformist and a tribute to masculine freedom, this is a fragrance perfect for the gentleman looking to make a statement and break the mold.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Inquiring into how opposing perspectives are acknowledged sheds light on if a healthy or conformist culture exists.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • That may be because Kahn, whose assemblage art is, in simple terms, spontaneous and non-conformist with its amorphous shapes and eccentric use of color.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
  • And where the exercise of one’s imagination can be dismissed as a blandly unimaginative, even conformist gesture?
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Fan’s unique perspectives and ability to challenge the norm are reflected in the non-conformist approach of Pi Network itself.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Fellow radio DJs in the electronic underground, the pair were joined by their desire to make their mark on the relatively conformist music scene.
    — Monica Kim, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
  • As hard as being openly gay may be in Japan’s conformist society, in some ways public attitudes have evolved more quickly than those of the country’s political leaders.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2021
  • As explained by The Pew Research Center, this generation was given its name as they were perceived as conformist and civic-minded.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Drudge Report has become a conformist shadow of its formerly bratty, oppositional self.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • For starkly conformist Brazil, Irwin’s sense of unconstrained freedom may help clarify just what enraged those destructive observers.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • But the taboos that governed political affiliation in what was until very recently a high-consensus, highly conformist society have been breached.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In the 17th century play, Dom Juan is a non-conformist who casts off many women after seducing them and harbors a disregard for religion and social norms.
    — Bellamy Richardson, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
  • The tuxedo—or depending on your geographical position, the dinner suit (Britain) or le smoking (France)—at first feels like the ultimate in conformist dress.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2025
  • People in the middle of status hierarchies are more conformist than those above and those below, motivated by fear of status loss; Barbara Ehrenreich called it the fear of falling.
    — Joan C. Williams, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Even so, Mailer concluded his piece with a spurt of anti-conformist rhetoric that anticipated the countercultural ethos of the 1960s.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 6 June 2021
  • Empirical research has demonstrated that diverse groups are less conformist and more deliberative, leading to more accurate and evidence-based decision-making.
    — Matthew Connelly, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2023
  • Through the 1940s, jazz-loving white outsiders such as the Beats picked up on cool, including its non-conformist undertones, and disseminated it to the rest of America.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Saft comes from Levittown, Long Island, the prototype for conformist, white-picketed American suburbia.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The neighborhood earned a new reputation as a place to escape the pressures of South Korean society, bound by Confucian hierarchies and conformist views.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022

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