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
It’s an appealingly romantic idea, but also a clear violation of an unspoken social code.
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2020
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
Even as he restructured the Saudi economy, MBS moved in 2017 to liberalize parts of Saudi Arabia’s extremely conservative social code.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2018
You must have good manners, which is mostly being courteous and sympathetic and doing sundry social things according to the social code which happens to be then in vogue.
From A Jolly by Josh by