unpermissible
Example Sentences
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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 Paul Heyse
It seemed to me unpermissible to desire, for aesthetic reasons, to see the restoration of an ecclesiastical régime, with its remorseless system of oppression.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud.
From The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
And so it came about that it was found unpermissible to attribute all functions of orientation exclusively to the labyrinth.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
Returning for a moment to the clearly unpermissible, one might take a book like "Frankenstein."
From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Edward Fordham Spence
