Synonym: baleful, ban, banning, dour, forbiddance, grim, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening. Similar words: forbid, morbidity, abiding, adding, wadding, wedding, shedding, prodding. Meaning: [fər'bɪdɪŋ /fə'-] n. an official prohibition or edict against something. adj. 1. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance 2. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
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31 Given the value of experienced seamen in a war, has a navy ever issued orders forbidding it?
32 A letter to his wife Abigail told of how he once gathered nerve to peek in on forbidding Catholic worship in Philadelphia.
33 The night was dark and still and the middle road had an eerie, forbidding atmosphere.
34 It is altogether a more flamboyant and less forbidding building than the earlier mill.
35 We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside.
36 With his dark good looks and meticulous personal style, he made a lasting, if rather forbidding impression on lay people.
37 The chancery court issued a restraining order forbidding desegregation in September.
38 In appearance he was a tall and forbidding character[Sentencedict.com], whom Cleo thought at first was rather too grim of face.
39 The main tower of the fortress is nine storeys high and even today looks forbidding.
40 After the meadows they had left, this was a strange, forbidding land.
41 Uncle Fred was an austere and impressive figure, whom some people found forbidding.
42 Often, the main obstacle between them is the prospect of dealing with forbidding galleries charging forbidding commission fees.
43 To their left was the long forbidding wood with its tangle of trees and stubborn defenders.
44 Neither propriety nor the federal Hatch Act forbidding solicitation of political funds on government property was violated, Clinton asserted Wednesday.
45 At first when you enter, the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle.
46 But she had also issued a proclamation forbidding all preaching and teaching.
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47 For me a town was a mysterious, rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone.
48 The Phoenix King issued an edict forbidding them to set foot on Ulthuan.
49 The city passed a statute forbidding skateboarding in parks.
50 The pose emphasized her handsome and forbidding face.
51 This is a law forbidding the import.
52 They passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.
53 The 1961 law forbidding dowries further undermined traditional Hinduism.
54 The government used the sumptuary law of woven gold as the main methods of forbidding the expenditure of luxury in Song Dynasty.
55 These experiences had not made Jung stern or forbidding, but had given him a puckish sense of humor.
56 He spoke in Tibetan, and his delivery was stern and admonitory , like a forbidding, old-fashioned father reprimanding his children.
57 As a group they had a forbidding and rigid quality.
58 "A valediction: Forbidding Mourning", his early poem, is one of the most representative works of English metaphysical poetry.
59 Forbidding private phone calls in the office cannot really reduce the company's expenses; it's just being penny wise and pound foolish.
60 French-Canadian fur trappers and Sioux disparaged such country as "bad lands. " The term now loosely defines any hilly terrain that is severely eroded into a forbidding landscape.
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