restrictive
adjective
tending or serving to restrict.
restrictively
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a word derived from
restrictive.
Example Sentences
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Anna Hopkins plays Fret, a medical researcher working to thwart a spreading plague called Coral, which causes humans to grow a restrictively stiff shell on their skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
Mr. Musk has criticized Twitter for moderating its platform too restrictively and has said more speech should be allowed.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
Rural America is only doomed to decline if you define it so restrictively that it’s not allowed to grow.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2019
Other countries, like Italy, have quotation exceptions, but courts have interpreted them quite restrictively.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2019
Thus, if I say, "Men who grasp after riches, are never satisfied;" the relative who is taken restrictively, and I am understood to speak only of the avaricious.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
