social convention
Example Sentences
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A spiritualist, newspaper publisher and political activist, Woodhull defied social convention in nearly every aspect of her eventful life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
It was teeming with big themes — identity, social convention, hubris and human attachment.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023
But it most reflects the struggle of an artist, perhaps a self-serious one, to balance work with the demands of social convention.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022
Which should make Dom Juan, a freethinker who spends most of the play discarding social convention as casually as you or I might wad a Kleenex, a hero.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2022
At the root of it, I was questioning the social convention.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
