taboo
adjective
proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable.
tabooed
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past participleof taboo.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof taboo.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
tabooadjectiveproscribed by society as improper or unacceptable.
Example Sentences
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At the Harvard College library, the only copy was removed from the shelves “and kept under lock and key with other tabooed books,” Justin Kaplan wrote in “Walt Whitman. A Life.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2022
Despite being one of the world’s favorite food categories — both nutritionally complete and widely considered tasty — meat is also the most tabooed food across many cultures.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
Mickey Rooney had lived backstage from the time he was two months old, and his approach to tabooed topics was decidedly more worldly and realistic than that of the average boy of his age.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wary Hays office tabooed the title, but allowed Twentieth Century to keep the offensive word in the script.
From Time Magazine Archive
Discussion of the island was, ,by mutual consent, tabooed.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
