in-group
Example Sentences
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A vice signaler typically violates moral or other standards of an out-group precisely in order to look good to the fellow members of some in-group.
From Salon
And the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior.
From Salon
“An autocracy needs to create an in-group versus an out-group,” Corrales explained.
From Slate
White women like Good are not just dissenters within the racial in-group, however, they are proof that the entire white nationalist story about inheritance and destiny is unstable.
From Salon
Their goodwill is awkward, as it must be when an in-group member tries to commiserate with “the other,” but it is, nonetheless, sympathy, which is to say concern.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
