social code

Example Sentences

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But with each passing decade, his vision of a rigidly enforced social code and the dangers of a mob mentality have come to seem more and more prescient.

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2020

Ignoring the social code of 1904, a wealthy child befriends three sisters whose family members work as servants next door.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2019

It’s the timeworn social code of the Old Boys’ network, in part.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2018

In moments like these, it’s easy — too easy — to dismiss Hannah for, among other infractions of the social code, egocentrism run amok.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2014

You must have good manners, which is mostly being courteous and sympathetic and doing sundry social things according to the social code which happens to be then in vogue.

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