mores
Example Sentences
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“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.
Language is an ideal prism through which a culture expresses its underlying mores.
Ms. Doucet populates the book with sympathetic characters—the “real cement and steel of the Inter-Con”—conscientious and kind Afghans who keep the hotel going as regimes collapse, rulers change, mores alter.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
