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

Even as he restructured the Saudi economy, MBS moved in 2017 to liberalize parts of Saudi Arabia’s extremely conservative social code.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 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

Mr. Langhope was always careful to temper his explanations with an "as you know": he would have thought it ill-bred to omit this parenthesis in elucidating the social code to his son-in-law.

From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo