proscriptive
Example Sentences
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Viewed this way, minding our p’s and q’s is less about proscriptive notions of correctness, and more about mindfulness, self-discovery and proper conduct.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
But it’s to Leaf’s credit that there’s nothing simplistic, and certainly nothing proscriptive, about how that closure takes place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
I don't want to be too proscriptive to what listeners should be seeing or feeling or thinking.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2022
I think the beginning was a long time ago for anything and everything, so the first step is never proscriptive or formulated.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
For, too proud and generous to desert their leader in his hour of peril, each of his adherents lay under the proscriptive ban of the revengeful Governor, as a rebel and a traitor.
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
