social code

Example Sentences

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He’s studied anxiety with the intensity of a scholar and now, as a director, he pairs that persona with a blunt oversharer who smashes every social code.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

But with each passing decade, his vision of a rigidly enforced social code and the dangers of a mob mentality have come to seem more and more prescient.

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2020

In moments like these, it’s easy — too easy — to dismiss Hannah for, among other infractions of the social code, egocentrism run amok.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2014

The first is that the NFL’s social code is the product of pro football’s unceasing intensity.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2013

The matrons of the South were especially proud of the unblemished correctitude of their social code, and Calhoun's wife put herself ostentatiously at the head of the movement.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)