social convention
Example Sentences
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For an in-person conversation, this response violates social convention, but for an online interaction, it is commonplace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
“Family Guy” began as the brainchild of Seth MacFarlane, now 50, who imbued the show with its pop-cultural bona fides, iconic musical numbers and a desire to satirize every social convention that Americans hold sacred.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024
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
She smiles, but on her the expression looks compulsory, like she’s just adhering to a social convention.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
