proscriptive
Example Sentences
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But the prohibitive costs and proscriptive laws sometimes mean there’s no choice at all.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2024
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
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
The only part that the so-called Race Question plays in this business is that it is used as a pretext to justify the coercive and proscriptive methods thus used.
From The Facts of Reconstruction by John R. Lynch
