unallowable

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This is a function of the nature of words to be true or false, allowable or unallowable.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

State auditors found millions in unallowable funds had been sent to three charter middle/high schools in the Puget Sound region that had employed teachers without certification in Washington State.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022

The department doesn't have authority to reject a district's spending, she said, unless it's "definitely unallowable."

From Fox News • Oct. 6, 2021

“Why is Hansen’s claim that, for the health of the planet, we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions an unallowable example of advocacy,” Holthaus asks, “when we trust a doctor’s recommendation that we stop smoking cigarettes?”

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2016

But no law can determine by general conceptions the exact point at which the similarity becomes legally unallowable.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Münsterberg, Hugo