mores

Example Sentences

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Their ability to enact change depended on their willingness to defy current custom and mores.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Emails reveal the wealthy taking proxy measures of one another’s yachts and villas, showboating their riches in ways that make Tom Wolfe’s “Bonfire of the Vanities” look like a genteel glimpse into society mores.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Though “Seven Veils” isn’t as undeniable and scathing as something like “Tár,” it’s a compelling study of the shifting belief about how great art is made, upended by contemporary mores.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

The true power of the Oscars is as a televised time capsule — of the fashion of the time, the social mores and the evolution of an artist’s personal style.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Along the way I encountered values that I accepted, primarily those that reinforced my early religious and community mores.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers