inhibited
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Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inhibited and shy, Tony has "a childish and luminous beauty" that makes him a success with adults, but a failure in the uncompromising world of his school fellows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tendencies, Inhibited and uninhibited. 72-3, 77-8, 94, 115-16, 125-26. union, 37-8.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund
Inhibited and locked away, it is not fed into the engine, and we feel exactly as though it were nil.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
Vocabulary lists containing inhibited
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Lesson 4
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"Love's Vocabulary" by Diane Ackerman
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