inhibited
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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
"With a constrained Assembly mandate additional legislation beyond that already scheduled is unfortunately inhibited," it added.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
Despite being shy and inhibited, he began “moonlighting” in the drama department, where, he later wrote, he found himself “fast losing my heart to drama.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025
But here among my own less inhibited people, I discovered it was simply letting your feet, hands and body spontaneously act out whatever impulses were stirred by the music.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Vocabulary lists containing inhibited
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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"Love's Vocabulary" by Diane Ackerman
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