NOUN
- an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another
How To Use double standard In A Sentence
- He said: ‘I think it is underhanded and duplicitous and it is double standards.’
- He is just another politician with seemingly double standards and a selective memory. Times, Sunday Times
- After all, a glaring double standard has been a hallmark of our nation's drug policy for decades.
- Double standard, did Helicopter Ben pose in Cosmo? Matthew Yglesias » Nominations Calvinball
- Step 2 was to accuse the administration of observing a double standard on leaks, giving reporters national security information when the information benefits them and vilifying leakers when it doesn't.
- It's a rare instance of the double standards around women and appearance benefiting us, not them. Times, Sunday Times
- So I'll let you decide whether this smells of hypocrisy and double standards. Times, Sunday Times
- On its website, however, the cultural cringe is evident and double standards obtain. Double Standards
- This double standard is what enables and entices women to shed their clothes.
- We don't ask them to turn up to work with their shirts off or in tight trousers for the women, so this represents double standard. The Sun