Definition of Double standard

1. Noun. An ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another.

Generic synonyms: Ethic, Ethical Code
Specialized synonyms: Double Standard Of Sexual Behavior

Definition of Double standard

1. Noun. The situation of two or more groups, one of whom is tacitly excused from following a standard generally regarded as applying to all groups. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Standard

double replacement reactions
double reverse
double rhyme
double room
double rooms
double salt
double saucepan
double scull
double sculls
double sharp
double sharps
double sheet bend
double space
double spaced
double stain
double standard
double standards
double star
double star system
double star systems
double stars
double steal
double steals
double stitch
double stop
double stopping
double stops
double straddle
double straddles

Literary usage of Double standard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"The double standard, as has already been said, prevailed over almost all Europe until very recent times. It was chosen by the United States, in 1792, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The more ardent advocates of a double standard, too, attributed most of the continued trade depression to this cause. The altered condition of ..."

3. A Beginner's History of Philosophy by Herbert Ernest Cushman (1911)
"(2) The standard of the truth of things in the Middle Ages became a double standard, and was therefore self-destructive. Ostensibly there was only one ..."

4. The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with by Stephen Colwell (1859)
"System of coinage in the united States — double standard — Proposed adoption of single standard of gold, as a remedy for scarcity of silver — Reduction in ..."

5. Money and Banking by William Amasa Scott (1916)
"... impossibility of establishing a fixed par of exchange between gold- and silver- standard countries. 3. The compensatory action of the double standard. ..."

6. Principles of Political Economy: with some of their applications to social by John Stuart Mill (1891)
"There was no pretense of setting up a double standard about it ; for it was evident to the most ignorant that so great a disproportion between the mint and ..."

7. History of American Coinage by David Kemper Watson (1899)
"CHAPTER XXII THE LESSON OF THE CENTURY Effect of the double standard—Decline in Value of Silver Bullion not an American Question—Relates to the World—Its ..."

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