Example sentences for: proscribed

How can you use “proscribed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its main definition in the Random House reads, “proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: taboo words ,” which I believe is a lot closer to what the editors were seeking than Vulgar .

  • Yet the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, while it has primary responsibility for terrorism analysis, is formally proscribed from having any oversight or operational authority and is not part of any operational entity, other than reporting to the director of central intelligence.

  • But it is the breakdown of decorum, the rejection of a social value that everyone knows is necessary, yet proscribed, that the relajo subverts.

  • The words proscribed by the old production codes were swearing or profanity in the true sense, with purely spiritual connotations in their reference to the Deity.

  • Even in cases where these conditions are not adhered to, multiple t -tests (which are generally proscribed in multivariate statistics in favor of ANOVA) would be preferable to resorting to ad hoc methods for assessing statistical significance of the results.


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