How to Use double standard in a Sentence

double standard

noun
Definition of double standardnext
  • She argued that society applies a double standard in dealing with women who commit adultery.
  • Davidson called out the double standard on judgments about their ages.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Mar. 2019
  • The double standard of old may be less relevant this cycle.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Priyanka points out that there's a double standard behind the backlash.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 June 2019
  • Swift has a long, badass history of calling out sexist double standards.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 24 May 2019
  • Black women are just fed up with the double standards and the cronyism in venture capital.
    — Dee Poku Spalding, Marie Claire, 30 Jan. 2019
  • The double standard still drives me mad and fuels my belief that women’s health is a feminist issue.
    — Dara Pettinelli Kapoor, Health.com, 11 June 2019
  • Is there a double standard for behavior between male and female athletes?
    — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 13 June 2019
  • Swift sings on the tune about society’s chauvinistic double standards.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2024
  • This whole fiasco got a lot of people talking about the double standard that women and men face (in many ways) in professional sports.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 14 June 2019
  • And, at the very same time, a mighty, pervasive and corrosive double standard belies the Klobuchar stories.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2019
  • Bernie Sanders seems to feel those double standards can just be overlooked, even when sexism has clearly manifested in his own campaign.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Feb. 2019
  • First, the Court had condemned the double standards and intolerance that so often define government actions against people of faith.
    — David French, National Review, 7 June 2019
  • Defenders of this double standard argue that there is a big difference between dominant platforms and ISPs.
    — Jeremy Carl, National Review, 11 June 2019
  • The bigger point as the U.S. and Netherlands prepare for Sunday’s final however, is the double standard that exists — still.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2019
  • All-Star, who viewed the move as part of a double standard.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The bassist spoke to this instance and called it a double standard.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • That seems like a double standard to many in the cannabis business.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2021
  • This shows that there is more than a double standard at play.
    — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2020
  • There's a double standard in a way that is not applied to men.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Daly later says in the the recording that there is a double standard regarding the use of the racial slur.
    — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2020
  • The sense of a double standard, once implanted, is hard to shake.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • DeLong says this is an easy way for the state to limit its costs, and a double standard.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2022
  • And the guy with the double standard is but one member of a great woke pandemic herd.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • This has caused some to argue there is a double standard.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 12 June 2020
  • Williams said that Bryant’s firing shows the double standard within the tech field.
    — Tat Bellamy-Walker, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • For Frost, the hurried measures were the mark of a blatant double standard.
    — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
  • People are more aware that there can’t be a double standard.
    — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 25 July 2019
  • The allegations of double standards have truth to them, to a point.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • The double standards faced by women athletes are not limited to the virtual world.
    — Lindsey Darvin, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024

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