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    Use "taboo" in a sentence

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    1. Though the word “God” was taboo, the songs were inspirational, secular pieces about love and salvation


    2. This new gang specialized in making money from all the trades that even the DMS found taboo; child porn, the use of child 'warriors', organ 'donation' and of course always the latest and hardest drugs


    3. Most taboo of all, particularly for those of Maori descent who hold a reverence for the art of tattoo, is the skin-trade


    4. For a moment I am scared that I’ve somehow broken some taboo or other … but surely Berndt would have told me… a glance at my companion shows me that he is as taken aback as I am


    5. There was certainly no taboo about seeing a woman’s breast in this society, the girls seemed to wear shirts less than the men


    6. That question was just about the worst taboo in her society, even more so in the parts of that society represented by this expedition


    7. That is a taboo, like incest


    8. Wishing for more wishes or love is taboo:


    9. It was more than tradition and the taboo of long female hair was so ingrained in them that while Song was at last turning her back on the practice, it felt like a supreme break with her own self


    10. Death is probably one of the most taboo subjects in the history of mankind

    11. What I’m saying is with a love like yours there are no restrictions nothing is wrong or taboo or socially unacceptable from where I sit life is to short to bother what people think especially now”, and she started coughing again


    12. It was dangerous and taboo to visit the Vatican


    13. As far as she could remember the subject of death had always been taboo; bereavement a rare and traumatic event


    14. Such may still be considered taboo or perhaps implausible, even by Hollywood standards


    15. “Teresa, you have broken a taboo


    16. The incident remained taboo, never discussed, as though it had never happened


    17. The notion of rebellion was indeed, taboo


    18. I suggest that the church of the future will be much more diverse in its beliefs and practices, even perhaps touching such taboo areas as reincarnation to say nothing of radically questioning the nature of the Holy Trinity and the Person of Christ


    19. For that taboo, they have roundly been stoned by the ever tolerant Leftists


    20. For Singer the taboo against people having sex with furry or feathery creatures is valid only to the extent that it requires the animal’s consent

    21. homosexual in nature is considered taboo


    22. But a marriage between a man to his paternal uncle’s daughter (father’s brother’s daughter) would be a taboo as they are considered brother and sister


    23. put both teams on the same plane if it were totally taboo


    24. But anything that’s moral or ethical is taboo with most judges, just consider some of their


    25. Individual thought is therefore taboo


    26. “I think you have never been beyond The Nine Valleys! His people have a strong nudity taboo, and he would like to change his clothing in a private place


    27. It's like playing Taboo with my brain - I have all of these ways I


    28. Here's the thing: as taboo as the act of harming a child is - as


    29. relationship brings obstacles with it due to the taboo regarding incest


    30. In the past, the taboo of

    31. The taboo of incest was created in the past on purpose, to allow children


    32. completely gone around this taboo and turned the situation around


    33. taboo that can possibly defend children from affective incest


    34. It was disgusting and against every taboo he had ever been brought up with


    35. us as it is taboo in many cultures but we mothers want you to


    36. It was not a place the Khmer Rouge patrols would trespass as the Angkor grounds and temples were considered taboo, because Khmers held a great fear of ghosts and thought the temple at Ta Prohm to be haunted


    37. read about taboo love in Carmilla, or release our inner beast via the


    38. Since this taboo had


    39. the obvious: if the inheritance or property of the father indudes the daughter, then this is not as likely to be considered a necessary taboo and will be the most frequently


    40. Riding as hard as he dared for a night and a day and a night, he came in the early dawn to the cliffs of Alkmeenon, which stood in the southwestern corner of the kingdom, amidst uninhabited jungle which was taboo to the common men

    41. 9 Jesus led men to feel at home in the world; he delivered them from the slavery of taboo and taught them that the world was not fundamentally evil


    42. The taboo pertaining to the latter danger is


    43. You talk to people fifty years ago and the idea of living with someone when you were not married was taboo


    44. The ultimate breach of taboo would come near the end of the


    45. Even so, the central taboo against malicious or deliberately harmful behavior remains strong enough that most hackers prefer to use the


    46. Later on, the mother fell ill and wanted to see doctor, which was a taboo for Falun Gong practitioners


    47. � Sex by then is not the taboo subject it is now


    48. Hallucinations are taboo in Western technological society…


    49. However, as taboo and unnatural as this might sound, we are going to take death, and actually befriend it


    50. Star continued to develop a close relationship with Anna, visiting her flat in the evenings and going for drinks at the pub; nothing was taboo or off her wavelength













































    1. tabooed in everyday life


    1. breaking of the taboos that had dogged her line down the centuries gave her a strength


    2. I would love to see the class system disappear and I see a great future for Thailand if old cultural taboos could be set aside and these young people are listened to but I fear it may take another generation or two and not in my lifetime


    3. He had touched on some of the greatest taboos of them all, mental health and sexual perversion but even that had had its day as far as the press were concerned


    4. The common ground, as Cohen sees it, is “the belief that human limits should be overcome, taboos are anathema, and human shame is an illusion


    5. Erotica, Adult Humour, Taboos and the History of Sex


    6. In many cases there are social or cultural taboos against either comparing certain things,


    7. not influenced by taboos


    8. " Never did he employ the negative mode of teaching derived from the ancient taboos


    9. menstruation and all the various taboos surrounding menstruation


    10. When cultural taboos are broken and there’s no punishment at hand, it becomes easier for others to do the same, and for additional taboos to be broken

    11. Furthermore, Christian missionaries have injected new religious doctrines further wearing down cultural beliefs and taboos


    12. com: Falling Taboos Put Lemurs on the Menu in Madagascar)


    13. The only taboos for Jennifer were unnecessary, gratuitous or sadistic violence and the harming of true innocents, mostly meaning children


    14. I intend to give your men a few safety hints about the local sexual mores and taboos, so that they can have fun while avoiding problems with the local law


    15. One must know that in the Pugilistic Fraternity, one of the taboos was the act


    16. Islam with its basis of fear, conquests, conversions, heresy, homosexuality, human rights, Jihad, Polygamy, Sexual inequality, slavery, taboos, vengeance, rituals, sects, belief in demons, easy divorce, purity out of rinsing hands (washing the body is washing the devil away) and Islamic laws, carried under powerful waves in an obsessional neurosis


    17. taboos of food and touch? In fact, their conversion is a proof that we


    18. “We live behind the information curtain for a reason, because the sheer volume of information forces our conscious mind to necessarily default to our subconscious editor: that which distills for our awareness the dangers and taboos to avoid in order to survive in one's social environment


    19. break cultural taboos and freely conversed with women


    20. Jesus boldly initiates the conversation with the woman at the well knowing the cultural taboos of a man speaking to a woman and a Jew addressing a Samaritan

    21. Living with a mild eccentric, she soon developed a functional list of taboos, those subjects guaranteed to drive one's partner into a sulking fit, if not a rage


    22. the planet there were age old taboos against ingesting them


    23. Moreover, if whatever around them is false: they will absorb lies and prejudices unconsciously… subconsciously… it so that falsehood becomes a part-of them, a part of their normality, a part of their reality… so they connect to it, and identify with it, so they can become just like everyone else around them and gain acceptance, so they can conform to all of the pressures and taboos and unspoken assumptions and myths that everyone else holds and practices


    24. The question of whether these values, mores, taboos, whether any cultural shame is healthy or sick is never examined; because the culture itself is worshipped, glorified and sanctified above all individual concerns


    25. The breaking of the sexual taboos is all for the best and when Sam told me she moved in with Greg I was happy for her


    26. Without an iron fist, without the church’s power and the religious brainwashing of Catholic dogma filling their souls, without the almighty church telling them what is good and what is evil, what is Christian and what is an abomination, without the superstitions and taboos and customs and traditions and holy days and saints days and teachings of the Catholic church which had been their peasant culture as obedient feudal slaves, without their illiterate cultures kept alive by close-knit villages preserving the ancient ways, without the Medieval barbarism that had regularly swept through Europe and kept each peasant huddled in their cottage or hovel hoping and praying to God that the murderers and rapists and robbers would not burn down his village this year… gave the lower classes a chance to live in peace as equals


    27. Civilized culture is an accumulated pile of negativity, a pile of forbidden taboos, ‘thou Shalt nots’


    28. A society with no taboos, no secrets, no fear, no hate, no envy, no greed


    29. Ioomi taboos strictly forbid a husband from having


    30. And in all of this there are greatness and goodness, and omniscience, and an understanding of absolutely everything, and the absence of any mysteries, taboos and ignorance

    31. tions and taboos (let us call them commandments) that are imposed


    32. tory of mankind that would have contained no system of sexual taboos


    33. Moreover, the more taboos are applied to the


    34. The rituals of rowing, the specialized language of the sport, the details of technique that he was struggling to master, the wisdom of the coaches, even their litany of rules and the various taboos they proscribed—all seemed to Joe to give the world of the shell house a measure of stability and order that for a long time now the outside world had seemed to him to lack


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    Synonyms for "taboo"

    taboo tabu forbidden out prohibited proscribed verboten restriction interdiction ban exclusion ostracism proscription banned restricted sacred unclean

    "taboo" definitions

    a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature


    an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion


    declare as sacred and forbidden


    excluded from use or mention


    forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands