social code
Example Sentences
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He’s studied anxiety with the intensity of a scholar and now, as a director, he pairs that persona with a blunt oversharer who smashes every social code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
With bugs, we’ve developed a sort of social code around which to kill and which to save.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022
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
It’s the timeworn social code of the Old Boys’ network, in part.
From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2018
The matrons of the South were especially proud of the unblemished correctitude of their social code, and Calhoun's wife put herself ostentatiously at the head of the movement.
From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
