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Adjective
- not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence
- varying from or not adhering to a standard
- envelopes of nonstandard sizes
- nonstandard lengths of board
- not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community
- a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups
- the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech- A.R.Dunlap