double standard
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5.2
- noun
- /ˈdʌbəl ˈstændərd/
:
doble rasero
- Gender stereotypes also subject women to double standards and a double bind.
- sexual double standard
- societal double standard
- apply a double standard
Is there financial hypocrisy and double standards around money?
- Is there financial hypocrisy and double standards around money?
- Because you saw injustice and double standards, inconsistent policing.
- It's the sense that a double standard has been applied that will help Trump.
- So you think she has a double standard?
- And I think there still is a huge double standard here.
- There is a a double standard in our ethics at present.
- The fastest way to lose respect of your team is to be indecisive and then to have double standards.
- You're offended at the double standard and not at the racism of the joke.
- You know, I want to address some of those things that he does and his hypocrisy and his double standards.
- Yeah, see it so but the double standard on honestly, it's quite shocking.
- However, relationships with narcissistic folks are double standard laden blood sport for them.
Examples
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I was having this exact conversation with my students just the other day, - about that double standard.
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Critics argue that the double standard applied to celebrities compared to ordinary citizens is unfair.
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It's the sense that a double standard has been applied that will help Trump.
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- Can you explain to me the double standard?
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You know, that is SUCH a double standard.
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Israel is not the victim of a double standard; it is the target of no standard at all.
Academic text (2011) -
Based on your experience, is there a double standard in music and music education departments?
Academic text (2005) -
There would seem to be a double standard of values and priorities at work here.
Academic text (1993) -
Is that that double standard in terms of like how fathers can be seen and how mothers need to be seen?
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Wow, that's a double standard.
Synonyms
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3.9
Giving one person or group better treatment than others
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6.7
An unfair liking that makes you treat one person or group better than others
A rule that gives special advantages to rich or powerful people rather than everyone
Antonyms
- Specialized
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5.8
A computer model that gives equal results for different groups and avoids bias
How Fair
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase composes transparently at the lexical level — 'double' (twofold) + 'standard' (rule) yields the idea of two different rules being applied — so a learner can infer that different people are being treated differently. However, the evaluative sense of unfairness and idiomatic use in social critique is pragmatic and may not be fully predictable without exposure, so it is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Double standard comes from the image of two measuring sticks: double means two and standard means the rule, so one person is measured one way and another person a different way. That's why it describes 'a rule or judgment that is applied unfairly to different people'.