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Example sentences for: taboos

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Language taboos seem to be persistent in American English--more so than in British English, where, although one cannot say that anything goes, one encounters more dirty language on television (in particular), especially after the so-called “watershed” hour of nine o'clock (which some are trying to put off till ten o'clock).
I pursued the investigation in a bar, where verbal taboos are often relaxed.
Thus Joan Lunden on ABC-TV said to Steve Crowley, “Are you ready to use the R-word recession ?” Many words like recession could be called semi-taboo words or limited taboos, for scarcely anyone would be shocked or offended to encounter them, though some people avoid using them.
Healthy societies need a decent supply of verbal taboos and prohibitions, if only as yardsticks by which ordinary people can measure and define themselves.
Solondz's writing doesn't cut very deep, but it does swing wide, smashing taboos on all sides--the film is the dark side of There's Something About Mary . And in some ways, it couldn't have had a more fitting launch.