Not customary or conventional

Usage examples of unorthodox.

January, he had an opportunity to expound his unorthodox views to Hitler personally at a dinner given for a number of new corps commanders in Berlin on February 17.

When test flights began, the strange and unorthodox shapes of those pilotless, radio-controlled craft sweeping across the Cornish countryside led to a flood of flying saucer reports.

It was, of course, a very unorthodox thing for the verger to go away and leave the Abbey unattended, even for half an hour, but vergers, after all, are only human, and enjoy a cup of tea as much as other people who do not wear black cassocks.

Such weapons as these, and the highly unorthodox methodology employedmuch of which had obvious nonmilitary applications not reflected in their technological level are quite obviously a product of a savage evolution.

The anticipations discussed there were usually the reverse of heavenly —or, if not, then dealing with highly unorthodox realms of beatitude.

The notoriety of their unorthodox views would result in unorthodox ruba'is being attributed to them, though such attributions would in all probability not have been made in the absence of rumour that such men did from time to time strike off verses of this type.

This Praetor, who was a swine and a murderer, who by the most conservative estimates was responsible for a million deaths or "disappearances" among his own kind, not to mention untold incursions against alien citizenries, this Praetor whose own order had sent her elder brother on an impossible mission whose failure required his execution, her parents' ritual suicide, the unorthodox stigma placed upon her and her surviving sibling, this Praetor presumed to reach her even beyond his own death, and require that she offer him her music.

What would Gromph have to say about her unorthodox approach to the Blooding hunt and ceremony?

Vergil Ulam, brilliant, unorthodox, has exceeded every ethical guideline for genetic research to engineer blood cells that think for themselves.

The chess pieces belonged to the Professor, but if he disapproved of Spencer's unorthodox move, it didn't show.

The risk had been substantialthe confidence interval on that very unorthodox jump was broad enough that they could have gone right into Xavier itself.

According to the Sodeskayans, the unorthodox tactics actually rattled Toronder crews, who were trained for more conventional warfare.

You're skeptical about conventional wisdom, but attracted to unorthodox ideas.

Almost overnight unorthodox behaviour had become the new orthodoxy, long-haired weirdos became the norm and patriotic boys with crew cuts started to look like freaks.

His pedagogical method had been unorthodox, and so like many radicals he had worked against vehement opposition, even actual persecutions: I gathered his tenure was revoked and he was dismissed from his position on a charge of moral turpitude while still in his early thirties -- though it was not clear to me whether he had ever held official rank in his faculty.