unallowable

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This is a function of the nature of words to be true or false, allowable or unallowable.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

State auditors found millions in unallowable funds had been sent to three charter middle/high schools in the Puget Sound region that had employed teachers without certification in Washington State.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022

The department doesn't have authority to reject a district's spending, she said, unless it's "definitely unallowable."

From Fox News • Oct. 6, 2021

“Why is Hansen’s claim that, for the health of the planet, we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions an unallowable example of advocacy,” Holthaus asks, “when we trust a doctor’s recommendation that we stop smoking cigarettes?”

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2016

But if this is done it is unallowable to date that existence, not from Moses, but from some other intermediate point in the history of Israel.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius