mores
Example Sentences
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Wind-swept Catherine is as constrained by societal mores as geographic ones.
From Los Angeles Times
Emails reveal the wealthy taking proxy measures of one another’s yachts and villas, showboating their riches in ways that make Tom Wolfe’s “Bonfire of the Vanities” look like a genteel glimpse into society mores.
“They like makings me look like a monster because of way I looks maybe. All my life’s I been told to be quiet and do what I was told. No mores.”
From Los Angeles Times
European and American mores on speech are on a collision course.
The world is endlessly fascinating, and getting more so in this era of rapid change in technology, cultural mores, and politics.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
