Words similar to taboo
Example sentences for: taboo
How can you use “taboo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Taboo is here employed in its loosest sense, quite a different one from that demanded by the context of the book, and it would have been better to have described raising taxes as a term that is “politically inexpedient” (itself a useful euphemism).
A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.
The earliest example of fuck, appearing in a ciphered version in the fifteenth-century poem Flen Flyys, has always been a crowd-pleaser, since it is not only in code—suggesting that the word was taboo even at that time—but describes monks fucking.
What comes across to an objective viewer is that Weisberg, Saletan, and the press in general feel emotionally that they are collectively above criticism and that Brill has violated a taboo.
The paper says that it (along with other papers) has openly reported that some of its information has "come from Starr's office," but Starr's public admission "broke an unwritten taboo leaving him vulnerable to criticism."