proscriptive

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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

I don't want to be too proscriptive to what listeners should be seeing or feeling or thinking.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2022

How do we encourage and foster greater inclusivity in the arts and arts journalism without falling into a rigidly proscriptive approach?

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2020

His reviews — listy, pontificating, proscriptive — were a form of self-advertising that also served as a useful means of self-critique.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

Adj. prohibitive, prohibitory; proscriptive; restrictive, exclusive; forbidding &c. v. prohibited &c. v.; not permitted &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark