proscriptive

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Viewed this way, minding our p’s and q’s is less about proscriptive notions of correctness, and more about mindfulness, self-discovery and proper conduct.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

I don't want to be too proscriptive to what listeners should be seeing or feeling or thinking.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2022

His reviews — listy, pontificating, proscriptive — were a form of self-advertising that also served as a useful means of self-critique.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

That’s not just descriptive; it’s prescriptive, and proscriptive too.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2018

It was a sovereign power at once coercive and proscriptive, and a mighty instrument for transferring the produce of the many to a small and exclusive coterie.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers