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
It’s an appealingly romantic idea, but also a clear violation of an unspoken social code.
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2020
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
Henley makes wisecracks about using the wrong fork and about a social code that had housewives dressing up to go to the grocery store.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015
By unwritten social code he could declare the date off.
From DP by Savage, Arthur Dekker
