Sentence example with the word 'taboo'

taboo

anathema, count out, exception, illegal, interdiction, nonpermissible, prevention, relegate, ruled out, unacceptable, zoning

Definition adj. excluded from use or mention

Last update: October 8, 2015

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Drinking alchohol in public places is taboo many societies.   [Please select]

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The word holiness (qodesh) in primitive Hebrew usage partook of the nature of taboo, and came to be applied to whatever, whether thing or person, stood in close relation to deity and belonged to him, and could not, therefore, be used or treated like other objects not so related, and so was separated or stood apart.   [Please select]

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They were books; jewellery had been tabooed by the authorities.   [Please select]

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The taboo against taking food in the underworld occurs in the myth of Proserpine, and is also frequent in folk-tales (Child, i.)   [Please select]

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I hardly noticed that I was being regulated by a new House Standard with more than Meltonian observance of taboo rules and caste distinctions.   [Please select]

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"Good, my hosts," he remonstrated, "it is geasa (taboo) for me to eat alone."   [Please select]

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"Shop talk" was strictly taboo, and also all reference to the war.   [Please select]

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During the supper they had firmly resolved to taboo the war.   [Please select]

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Or more probably he meant to convey that he wished the subject of his youthful reminiscences to be taboo.   [Please select]

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This was too much, and poker, with Bok in it, was taboo from that moment.   [Please select]

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Those august families had returned to London for the season; but the taboo half-suggested by Mrs.   [Please select]

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