Word: unwritten
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...sportswriters, women learn quickly that they must observe certain unwritten rules. They must tolerate an interminable onslaught of teasing tossed at them. They must bury female sensibilities at the door. If they linger in the locker room or converse in too friendly a fashion with players, they are accused of flirting and talked about in unflattering ways that in time undermine their credibility and wear them down...
...there was the unwritten law: Bulls Can Make Money. Bears Can Make Money. Pigs Always Get Slaughtered...
...seriously doubt that my teaching fellow is all that squeamish about sex; he was simply handing down the unwritten code of his superiors on the Human Subjects Committee...
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...repeal tonight does is put us back from a written law to an unwritten law," said Walsh. "We're in a state now, not only of a lot of potential lawsuits, but a state of confusion...