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It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

"Not My Job: We Quiz Lena Headey On Games Worse Than 'Game Of Thrones'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 6, 2016.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

"Naima" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Rachel Hartman (2015). “Shadow Scale”, p.472, Random House

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.95

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

1995 Addressing the 4th World Conference on Women. Reported in the NewYork Times, 6 Sep.