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

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

While Living Well Kent was “extremely responsive to community needs,” the county found, “vital information was missing from the client records sampled” and it had “billed for unallowable expenses.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021

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

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2016

Similarly the moral value of fasting was recognised, but all compulsory abstinence, and all distinctions of food as allowable and unallowable, were abolished.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.