mores

Each performer made the dialogue ring true to contemporary mores.

Rather, it was the thrust-and-parry of the pair, their gently barbed, whipsmart badinage, that made Nichols and May so revolutionary, their routines about sexual politics and social mores riding a knife’s edge.

We’ve been led to believe that things work in a certain way, that there are mores and norms.

Then, feigning originalism in Dobbs, they vitiated Equal Protection, elevating the legal rights of zygotes over those of living, breathing women, citing 12th-century mores when men like Alito burned women like me at the stake.

Raisi’s tenure was marked by high unemployment, a dismal economy, political repression and strict social mores.