inhibited

Example Sentences

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The US State Department said last year that "official complicity, including at senior levels, inhibited effective law enforcement action against trafficking crimes" in Cambodia.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

It was something neither she nor her coaches had ever clocked from just straight video footage, inhibited by limiting angles and baggy snowboarding clothing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

For example, at Bluebonnet, people’s limited access to correspondence and other mail has inhibited their ability to correspond with their families and legal teams to defend themselves.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

Mr Ebenezer said he and his staff needed to be "allowed to do what we need to do and not be inhibited by ridiculous bureaucracy".

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025

Somehow I felt that Bledsoe and Norton were behind it, and all day I was inhibited in both speech and conduct, for fear that I might say or do something scandalous.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison