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prohibitory

adjective as in restrictive

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Example Sentences

The inference which ought to have been drawn from these facts was that the prohibitory system was absurd.

Reaching out a hand so white it was in itself a shock, he laid it in a certain prohibitory way on the pall, as if saying no.

In unions under the Prohibitory Order, also able-bodied single women.

The moderate use of brandy was universal, but the drunkenness which blots these days of prohibitory laws was comparatively rare.

Agriculture on a large scale finds it a heavy drawback; to agriculture on a small scale it is often prohibitory.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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