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
It’s the timeworn social code of the Old Boys’ network, in part.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2018
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
Mr. Langhope was always careful to temper his explanations with an "as you know": he would have thought it ill-bred to omit this parenthesis in elucidating the social code to his son-in-law.
From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo
