acceptability

Example Sentences

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The tradition calls people to shed the performance of acceptability and live from a truer place.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

"As time goes on, more of a shared societal consensus may emerge about the acceptability of defendants' conduct."

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

But there has undeniably been a recent movement among marginalized people to identify as monstrous—or at least to identify with the monstrous—as a way to celebrate stepping outside the borders of acceptability.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

McAvoy says "walking the tightrope" between public acceptability and the dark self-obsessed "animal version of humanity" is what attracted him to the role.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024

I have someone to sit with—that counts as a step up on the ladder of social acceptability.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson