social suicide
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An action that will cause severe embarrassment or loss of social standing.
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- Wearing Crocs to a formal event would be social suicide.
- Admitting you don't like pizza at a dinner party could be considered social suicide.
- His fashion choices were so outrageous that they bordered on social suicide.
- She worried that revealing her secret hobby would be social suicide among her peers.
- In that conservative community, expressing such liberal views was akin to social suicide.
- He knew that publicly disagreeing with the popular opinion would be social suicide.
- For a politician, making such a controversial statement is effectively social suicide.
- She feared that dating someone from the rival family would be social suicide.
- He considered his eccentric art project to be a form of social suicide, but he did it anyway.
- In the world of high fashion, wearing last season's trends is an act of social suicide.