proscriptive
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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
But it’s to Leaf’s credit that there’s nothing simplistic, and certainly nothing proscriptive, about how that closure takes place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
I don't want to be too proscriptive to what listeners should be seeing or feeling or thinking.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2022
The British Constitution was not made "for great, general and proscriptive exclusions; sooner or later it will destroy them, or they will destroy the constitution."
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
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