forbidding

Speech parts

1. forbidding - Noun

2. forbidding - Adjective

3. forbidding - Verb

Derived from forbid

5. forbidding - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Forbid

Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

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Examples

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. John Lescroart

In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out. Roger Scruton

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. Frank Borman

To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort. Alain-René Lesage

If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation. John Lancaster Spalding

Who does not obey forbidding will regret afterwards. Estonian Proverb

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