noun
definition
A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
Examples of mores in a Sentence
He teaches them good manners and social mores, and he expects them to be just as well-behaved in private as they are in public.
In other countries, there may be variations based on the cultural mores, such as head scarves in Muslim countries.
They more closely resemble the sexual mores of Greece three thousand years ago.
The guidance is the most far-reaching yet in its efforts to keep judges on-message with changing social mores.
A public policy relating to marriage cannot be separated from the prevailing mores surrounding divorce.
It suggests they are more confident about modern mores.
Mork was an ET who was taken in by human Mindy, and humor was found in his inability to understand human cultural mores and norms.
Perhaps the social mores simply dictated ' plain ' .
He also has encyclopedic informations on cultural mores across the galaxy - just the droid you would want at your side to keep you from committing the odd destruction-of-your-race faux pas when dealing with aliens.
Its scenes reflect the mores of the time and region in which it was created.
Serves me right for posting a lofty analysis of cultural mores the other day.
For a much more interesting, moving, and'real ' look at contemporary marriage mores in India, watch Monsoon Wedding.
Two people who had never met before but who throughout their lives had been surrounded by a great deal of cultural and religious mores.
In the online world, community mores, taste and conventions must be established and observed.
There are " no mores " no mores in an unregenerate person 's life.
So in effect, writing science fiction is harder than writing 'plain' fiction, since you have to know how to write fiction AND how to world-build and all the conventions and mores of the science fiction genre.
On the other hand, pelagic sealing, being a method of promiscuous slaughter, was illegitimate; it was contra bonos mores and analogous to piracy.
Mores made him abbot of St Augustine's at Dover, and finally archbishop of Canterbury.