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following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" accepted, customary, stodgy, formulaic unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" button-down, square, stereotyped, white-bread (weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake" traditional conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" orthodox represented in simplified or symbolic form nonrepresentational rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" formal |
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