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forbidden

adjective as in outlawed, prohibited

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The highway crossed two huge rivers that looked like seas, gas stations, McDonald’s, hotels, hospitals, and hundreds of billboards that bombarded me with forbidden culinary delights.

It is a forbidden luxury that simply does not fit into the most basics of living.

In the House bill, the tax benefits would only be stripped from the part of the account involved in the forbidden transaction.

They made me take off my shoes, which they thoroughly checked for any forbidden items.

The forbidden love story is the selling point, but the mysteries around witches, vampires and demons give it a highbrow veneer.

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It was forbidden to be eaten, and seen as having powers that beat back “demons and sorcerers” as well as “misfortune.”

Like Lent, the season of Advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.

Astrology and black magic are forbidden in Islam; not an obscure point and one that Monis likely knew.

So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City.

“It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of contemporary times when deriving legal rulings,” they argued.

I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

Though, as everybody well knew, the doctor had forbidden her to lift so much as a pin!

Even then the Prime Minister was with difficulty prevented from bowling during forbidden hours.

By an Act passed in the 4th of William and Mary foreign buttons made of hair were forbidden to be imported.

In the same year he also manufactured two million penny tokens for our soldiers in Spain, which were not forbidden.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forbidden, such as: outlawed, prohibited, banned, closed, no-go, and proscribed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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