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Example sentences for: taboos

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I pursued the investigation in a bar, where verbal taboos are often relaxed.
For all its nonsensical trappings, the mummy narrative is serious business, because when other peoples' passionately held taboos are casually flouted it is serious business.
One might be led to think that it is always open (silly) season on the language in the US; but we cannot ignore the seriousness of religious taboos on some aspects of language and writing, as the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie because of a book.
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.
James Ferman, Secretary of the BBFC, points out that it is only in the English-speaking world that such strong taboos have been built up around dictionary words and that this country shares with South Africa alone its extreme anxiety about “bad” language.