taboo
Example Sentences
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Maddie believes speaking openly about baby loss can still be a "taboo" and that those who do could be considered to be "scaremongering".
From BBC
But to remain globally competitive, Chinese companies also incorporate materials from foreign websites, such as Wikipedia, that address taboos such as the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Increasingly, beauty and health brands are reframing formerly taboo ailments and issues, using them as a way to build community.
Conversations once deemed taboo in the workplace, like mental health and shrinking boundaries between work and personal life, have become priorities for employers.
Not until I sat down to write the script that would provide a space for me to express the taboo, the forbidden, the absurd and the terrifying feelings I knew I wasn’t alone in.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
