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

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 limited judicial record interpreting the PCA suggests that the legal line has been crossed if the military engages in activities that are “regulatory, proscriptive, or compulsory.”

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2018

People have this sense that we're going to learn some kind of proscriptive technique to prevent events like this from happening and that's not really what you learn from these events.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2017

Brown, either do this, or cease your empty vaporing against the proscriptive features of our system, as you are pleased to style it.

From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by Brownlow, William Gannaway