A person who responds to a dreaded disease, such as cancer, in a culturally acceptable fashion may be publicly and privately honored with higher social status.

Thus, one must be able to manipulate the proposed mediator in an acceptable and ethical fashion.

Trousers will be one of the thoroughly acceptable fashions for the next few months.

Bare midriffs and bare backs are now acceptable fashion.

Some in the alternative community view this as flattering and as a positive expansion of what is socially acceptable, and easily available, fashion.

His stylish collection showed the vast range of acceptable fashion for spring and summer, including some ideas he placed on the fashion map himself.

Early probationers were expected not only to obey the law but also to behave in a morally acceptable fashion.

I started out in acceptable fashion, dropping the first two that came my way.

My abilities were growing on Rimilia, but not in a nice, slow, acceptable fashion.

To spare her other friend Rosemary embarrassment, she had learned to dress on rare occasions in an acceptable fashion.