proscriptive

Example Sentences

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But the prohibitive costs and proscriptive laws sometimes mean there’s no choice at all.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2024

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 think the beginning was a long time ago for anything and everything, so the first step is never proscriptive or formulated.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

People have this sense that we're going to learn some kind of proscriptive technique to prevent events like this from happening and that's not really what you learn from these events.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2017

Our Constitution is not made for great, general, and proscriptive exclusions; sooner or later it will destroy them, or they will destroy the Constitution.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund