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Sentence count:131+8Posted:2017-01-27Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: forbiddenoutprohibitedproscribedtabuverbotenSimilar words: baboonget aboutset aboutjust aboutcast aboutforget aboutcast about forbookMeaning: [tæ'buː /tə'b-]  n. 1. a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature 2. an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion. v. declare as sacred and forbidden. adj. 1. excluded from use or mention 2. forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands. 
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31, Yet competition - professionally desirable - remained politically taboo.
32, Death is still a taboo subject for many people.
33, But she sought not so much to break a taboo as to assert her independence from the male yoke.
34, There seems to be nothing taboo about the subject: everyone agrees excision no longer happens.
35, Postimpressionist art was also taboo, especially Pablo Picasso, who was regarded as a dangerous subversive.
36, Traditionally, collaboration in the classroom, for instance, has been taboo, condemned as a form of cheating.
37, By talking about this taboo subject in prayers, sermons and Sunday-school lessons.
38, Totem and Taboo does not just help our understanding of totemism.
39, Most of the theoretical discussion assume that few, if any, breaches of the taboo occur.
40, A still photographer and a video cameraman followed him in there, which is taboo and off-limits and strictly verboten.
41, What counts as taboo language is something defined by culture, and not by anything inherent in the language itself.
42, In his Totem and Taboo Freud made such an act of primal parricide and rape the origin of all subsequent human culture.
43, In the '50s it was taboo for co-workers to date each other.
44, By junior high, my classmates were wearing lipstick and a little makeup, but for me that was taboo.
45, Whatever can not be shared with the masses is taboo to me.
46, Data on breaches of the taboo in small-scale communities are sparse and largely considered as cases of individual deviance.
47, By this time - the early seventies - homosexuality was no longer a taboo subject.
48, But sales are now rising by about 50 percent a year as the idea loses its social taboo.http://sentencedict.com/taboo.html
49, There has long been a taboo on the eating of fresh oysters during the months May through August.
50, The protest was without precedent in a land where strikes are taboo.
51, It is a taboo subject, and the marriage ceremonies are performed in secret.
52, Society leads you to believe that certain things are taboo.
53, What is the taboo on life and liveliness inside the family?
54, Was the child allowed to express a wide and deep range of emotion, or was the expression of particular feelings taboo?
55, Satin smooth Telltale lines are taboo under clingy tops and knit fabrics. Lycra blends give the smoothest outlines.
56, Sex before marriage is no longer taboo in western countries.
57, There is a strong taboo against marrying outside the group.
58, Playing any instrument was taboo, but playing it along a public highway - shocking.
59, She was to be ritually speared for having broken a taboo.
60, It was an attempt to continue the themes developed over twenty-five years earlier in Totem and Taboo.
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