mores

The townspeople are undifferentiated, and they are solidly united in their snobbery, antisemitism and resistance to changing mores.

“The Ten Year Affair” handles these twists with unfailing intelligence, capturing the sincere but confusingly improvised mores of marriage today.

It is deeply corrosive of personal mores and social trust.

Social mores are changing, with childlessness no longer viewed as unusual or undesirable.

Baby boomers were charging through American society at warp speed, challenging the prevailing morals and mores — and terrifying large numbers of Americans, who felt that the fabric of the nation was unraveling.