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Antonyms for unorthodox
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : uhn-awr-thuh-doks |
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈɔr θəˌdɒks |
Definition of unorthodox
Origin :- 1650s, from un- (1) "not" + orthodox.
- adj abnormal; other than accepted
- She had been two years in service and had got unorthodox notions.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- May I urge you not to reject this novel and unorthodox approach.
- Extract from : « A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis » by Melvin Powers
- It waved a six-fingered hand in an unorthodox, but friendly, greeting.
- Extract from : « A Matter of Magnitude » by Al Sevcik
- The question was quite an unorthodox procedure in English justice.
- Extract from : « The Stretton Street Affair » by William Le Queux
- The question had been a little too unorthodox, Brett decided.
- Extract from : « It Could Be Anything » by John Keith Laumer
- The Brainchild had been built too fast, and in too unorthodox a manner.
- Extract from : « Unwise Child » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- In other places it diverged into unorthodox sceptical inquiries.
- Extract from : « The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, December 1879 » by Various
- The runners were irritated at the unorthodox way in which the case had been managed.
- Extract from : « Mysteries of Police and Crime » by Arthur Griffiths
- The rites of the Russian Church are complex, and to the unorthodox, perplexing.
- Extract from : « The Story of Moscow » by Wirt Gerrare
- And his doctrine has been declared by his own church to be unorthodox.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll
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