Definition of "double standard" []

• A set of principles permitting greater opportunity or liberty to one than to another, especially the granting of greater sexual freedom to men than to women. (noun)

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• "Another repeated the accusation that the care Christian was receiving betrayed a cowardly double standard on the part of Bob and Suzanne Wright:"