socially correct
Example Sentences
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In 1955, New York City banned SROs, which kicked off the rigid encoding of the kind of lifestyle that we believe to be morally and socially correct into our built environment.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2018
“It is, after all, the politically and socially correct thing to do, and it’s something that society demands of us.”
From Slate • Dec. 1, 2016
Meg really lives three lives simultaneously: one in her febrile imagination, another in her socially correct school and home, a third in the brutal world of poverty and degradation that begins just around the corner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Christanity first became the socially correct religion by the fiat of Emperor Constantine the Great, then living.
From Time Magazine Archive
These tasks are set for every man; it is noteworthy how seldom their solution is ideally achieved, i.e., how seldom the solution is psychologically as well as socially correct.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
