social code

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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

Henley makes wisecracks about using the wrong fork and about a social code that had housewives dressing up to go to the grocery store.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015

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 aunts were austere, religious women, who moved in a narrow groove and ordered all their doings by a worn-out social code.

From Brandon of the Engineers by Bindloss, Harold