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Example sentences for: taboo

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The answer is not clear unless we accept a policy of drawing up a (very) long list of taboo words.
The authors might also have discussed the deliberate use of taboo words for their shock (or humor-inducing embarrassment) value by so-called “x-rated” comedians, especially performers like the American Lenny Bruce and the British Jerry Sadowitz and Kevin Bloody Wilson: some of that humor can be heard on British television, where some of the studio audience are evidently easily convulsed by the mention of words like shit and fart .
It was, he said, a "consecrated taboo" that "fixed" the boundary between the races.
When I was a lad, the word nigger was taboo in the US, but it was used freely till recently in Britain (meaning `any dark-skinned person'): the word Negro (with a capital N ) was carefully used instead.
To be sure, one is no longer shocked at hearing hell and damn on radio or television or even reading it in the press, although both were taboo a scant twenty years ago.