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
The first is that the NFL’s social code is the product of pro football’s unceasing intensity.
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2013
Our social code tolerates no passion swallowing up all the rest; and we must be content with a decent expression of feeling.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
