Double Standard Definition

double-standards
noun
A set of principles permitting greater opportunity or liberty to one than to another, especially the granting of greater sexual freedom to men than to women.
American Heritage
A system, code, criterion, etc. applied unequally; specif., a code of behavior that is stricter for women than for men, esp. in matters of sex.
Webster's New World

The situation of two or more groups, one of whom is tacitly excused from following a standard generally regarded as applying to all groups.

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Noun

Singular:
double standard
Plural:
double-standards

Double Standard Sentence Examples

  • He's king of the double standard.

  • Friends have always held that the attempt to enforce truthspeaking by means of an oath, in courts of law and elsewhere, tends to create a double standard of truth.

  • The basis of the system adopted was the double standard with a fixed relation of I to 15.09, and free coinage.

  • The change from the double standard was effected without any noticeable disturbance in commercial affairs, but this was in part due to the precaution of making the British pound sterling legal tender in the republic and establishing the legal equivalent between gold and silver at 10 soles to the pound.

  • From this perspective The Cribs may seem to operate under a double standard - their music scorns the new school of uber cool new wave indie kids, yet their sound adheres to exactly that.

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