social code
Example Sentences
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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
Ignoring the social code of 1904, a wealthy child befriends three sisters whose family members work as servants next door.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2019
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
She knows the social code of the Japanese language.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2011
It survived in more civilized times as a class distinction and as an ultimate court of appeal to punish violations of the social code.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
