mores
Example Sentences
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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.
The townspeople are undifferentiated, and they are solidly united in their snobbery, antisemitism and resistance to changing mores.
“The Ten Year Affair” handles these twists with unfailing intelligence, capturing the sincere but confusingly improvised mores of marriage today.
It is deeply corrosive of personal mores and social trust.
Social mores are changing, with childlessness no longer viewed as unusual or undesirable.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
