permissible
adjective
that can be permitted; allowable.
unpermissible
-
a word derived from
permissible.
Example Sentences
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Prescriptions—often very detailed and intimate—of permissible and unpermissible conduct.
From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.
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 Lucas Malet
And why, once again, should he have felt convinced that the ultimate nature of the clergyman's great experiment was impious, fraught with a kind of heavenly danger, "unpermissible?"
From The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood
Then followed a silence, pregnant, surcharged; on Ivan's part almost unpermissible.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
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 Lucas Malet
