inhibited
Example Sentences
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The US State Department said last year that "official complicity, including at senior levels, inhibited effective law enforcement action against trafficking crimes" in Cambodia.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
"I know that I've benefited from the warnings put on books and on topics of discussion within the seminars but I've not felt inhibited from my degree."
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
It was something neither she nor her coaches had ever clocked from just straight video footage, inhibited by limiting angles and baggy snowboarding clothing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Despite being shy and inhibited, he began “moonlighting” in the drama department, where, he later wrote, he found himself “fast losing my heart to drama.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025
It was a station-platform kiss—spontaneous enough to begin with, but rather inhibited in the follow-through, and with somewhat of a forehead-bumping aspect.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing inhibited
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Lesson 4
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"Love's Vocabulary" by Diane Ackerman
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