Backdating was evidently a Silicon Valley folkway. From Wordnik.com. [A Backdating Sentencing] Reference
Its main ambition was to liberate individuals from the arbitrary authority of place, family, and folkway, and to permit them a life of material success amid an economic system that generated an endless bazaar of values. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
The same is true of any folkway so long as it is not yet doubted. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
And thence to the tangled thicket where the folkway cleaves it through. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolfings] Reference
It is an entrenched North American folkway that kites should fly in March. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage] Reference
While breaking a folkway is likely to turn heads of passersby, breaking a more will offend observers and possibly bring punishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference
When You are indulging in the common customs and folkway of song dynasty, then in a sudden you have been led into a delicately arranged performance: look, isn't the pock-faced Bao zheng walking slowly from the road?. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
No, that transcript is not excerpted from secret Oval Office tapes; it’s an exchange between the cheerfully sexist, jingoistic, folkway-challenged and generally clueless French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath alias OSS 117 and his Egyptian liaison, the lovely Larmina El Akmar Betouche. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
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