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

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

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

With all the advantages, the free and easy social code, and republican waiving of social distinctions which colonial life afforded, the fact remained that the Wenlocks were some little way from being his social equals.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram