unpermissible

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And why, once again, should he have felt convinced that the ultimate nature of the clergyman's great experiment was impious, fraught with a kind of heavenly danger, "unpermissible?"

From The Human Chord by Blackwood, Algernon

Tell me, did you never in your life experience a strong desire to cut loose for once from propriety--to do something thoroughly reckless, improper, unpermissible?

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul

He weighed man's knowledge, man's freedom of action, man's standards of the permissible and unpermissible as against those of this maiden, whose heart was at once so much and so little awake.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

Prescriptions—often very detailed and intimate—of permissible and unpermissible conduct.

From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.

But whether she cared a jot for him and his feelings he could not clearly make out, from the style of the hurried, ungrammatical sentences, crammed with abbreviations and unpermissible elisions.

From An American Politician by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)