unpermissible

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And in poetry, more than anywhere else, it is unpermissible to confuse or obliterate them.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage

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 Spence, Edward Fordham

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

For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud.

From The Wendigo by Blackwood, Algernon

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 Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen