Tabooed
[tə'bu:d]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Taboo
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Examples
- One needs to read this book before he visits those venerable cathedrals, with their treasures of tabooed and forgotten tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the days of Cromwell, billiards had been tabooed by the Puritan, not on moral grounds, but rather political. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It ought to be prescribed, tabooed from utterance, for many years, till we get a new, better idea. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With marriage prohibited and prostitution tabooed, the Commission has a choice between sterilization and--let us say--other methods of expression. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Left to themselves, or ignorantly tabooed, they break forth in some barbaric or morbid form. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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