Not only would a fresh lockdown be an economic setback, it could be socially disruptive too.

It was at once deemed inescapable and socially disruptive, an experience so pernicious that it could invade language itself.

They can be socially disruptive and pose a global security threat.

Mergers had been in hibernation since early 2000s, which resulted in a greater reliance on the socially disruptive tool of inflation as stagflation.

This culture was often considered to be decadent and socially disruptive by rightists.