social code
Example Sentences
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With bugs, we’ve developed a sort of social code around which to kill and which to save.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022
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
The social code which we call etiquette is no senseless formula.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
