Example Sentences

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Her remaining in the house was in every way unpermissible; still he need not, perhaps, have been so cold-bloodedly precipitate with her.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

But it was his manner of discussion that I considered unpermissible.

From Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Leacock, Stephen

For not only did he find it piteous; but unseemly, unpermissible somehow, yet marvellously sweet, startling him out of all preconceived light diplomatic plans, plucking shrewdly at his complacently unawakened heart.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

Prescriptions—often very detailed and intimate—of permissible and unpermissible conduct.

From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.

But whether she cared a jot for him and his feelings he could not clearly make out, from the style of the hurried, ungrammatical sentences, crammed with abbreviations and unpermissible elisions.

From An American Politician by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)