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
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
What amounts to a great deal is that he magnificently and in an engaging, though somewhat brutal manner, broke the rules of a bourgeois social code.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
