How to Use nonconformity in a Sentence

nonconformity

noun
  • As a teenager, he was embarrassed by his parents' nonconformity.
  • That said, the very quirky nonconformity of Tumblr’s users may, in fact, push them to leave.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Monáe’s muse is nonconformity, but almost more as a concept than a practice.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2018
  • That whole book is about nonconformity and about rejecting being the same.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • Some young tech companies are going through their own spell of nonconformity.
    — Shira Ovide, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
  • There’s an ease that comes with not having to explain layers of your queerness and nonconformity.
    — Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Jud, on the other hand, is open about his desires, his anger, his nonconformity, his inability to fit in.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • Thus the Revenge is a haven for queerness and gender nonconformity.
    — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In many kids who grow up to be gay, gender nonconformity manifests long before overt same-sex attraction does.
    — Ben Appel, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But at least there is the possibility of doubt and nonconformity.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
  • One group created a skit focused on the role of the church in denouncing gender nonconformity.
    — G. Samantha Rosenthal, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Past laws against cross-dressing and gender nonconformity were alive and well in the early to mid 1900s.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Gender nonconformity is a touchy subject, and parents who celebrate it in their children can be judged harshly.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In that movie, Keating taught English and poetry, so his open mind and nonconformity worked.
    — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Their designs allude to change and nonconformity, which fashion has been becoming about lately.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 22 June 2023
  • Meyer, who has been public about his gender nonconformity for about two years, ran for homecoming prince in his freshman, sophomore and junior years, but didn’t win.
    — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Naturally, the nonconformity at the heart of Uncle Clifford’s essence shines through her glam.
    — Martine Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2022
  • In a way, the rain may have been comforting at a time when nonconformity seemed to have overthrown Washington’s temperature regime.
    — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
  • How much, if at all, gender nonconformity was accepted, is not directly evident.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • Any nonconformity would scatter light a little bit, messing up the telescope's resolution.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2012
  • In a culture where nonconformity is the only conformity, and vulgarity and coarseness are trendy, trendiness sells.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Many of the protests of these years were aesthetic gestures, statements of nonconformity rather than expressions of a political program.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • From opioid addiction and gender nonconformity to sexting, catfishing and one-night stands, nothing's off the table.
    — CNN, 8 July 2021
  • The park has a gateway reminiscent of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and has long served as a place to celebrate nonconformity.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • In 1987, the world’s biggest sportswear company even used a song by the Beatles to praise nonconformity.
    — Jane Coaston, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
  • The outcome is school bookshelves devoid of books, because those that used to be there have been found wanting, or merely because no one has time to page through them in quest of textual nonconformities with white privilege.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • That’s what confronted Lily Chrones, who found peace in gender nonconformity after years of making step-by-step video makeup tutorials and the like.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 19 May 2021
  • Under Nazi rule, the remedies for nonconformity were separation, torture and murder.
    — Kate Tuttle, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
  • Whether Barbara always had such strong feelings about womanhood or developed them in reaction to her kid’s gender nonconformity is unclear.
    — Isle McElroy, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Tea’s reporting from Camp Trans is the opposite of the broad and ignorant way that gender nonconformity is written about in mainstream news outlets.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 May 2018

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