taboo word
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftabooandword
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taboo
adjective
uk/təˈbuː/us/təˈbuː/
avoided for religious or ...
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word
noun
uk/wɜːd/us/wɝːd/
a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken ...
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(Definition oftabooandwordfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftaboo word
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The pardon is directed to thetabooword.
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We have all been sincerely trying to avoid discussing or even mentioning expenditure because previously your predecessor seemed to think that atabooword.
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If the image is ever used again, it will have onetabooword: the word that resulted from the previous agreement.
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The giver's hints may not rhyme with atabooword, or be an abbreviation of atabooword.
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The giver may not say a part of atabooword; for example, using base in baseball is taboo.
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The decision not to include taboo words has been widely criticized.
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These taboo words can be used in this context without any sanctions.
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The anxiety arousing effect of taboo words in bilinguals.
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Both illustrate the collapse in power of the 'right-minded people' whose hush has prohibited the publication of taboo words.
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The states that issue the license plate forbid taboo words, or anything anyone might misconstrue as such.
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In the context of word lists containing taboo words, finger took on emotional connotations that led to increased skin conductance amplitudes.
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Taboo words were displayed in a salient color, the task being to name the ink color and ignore the word.
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Participants were slower to name the color of the taboo words compared to the color of the neutral words.
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Once labelled as such, they are simply taboo words, and their actual meaning is almost totally irrelevant.
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In some households and some cultures, children acquire taboo words outside the home and learn their stigmatized status from peers.
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But they may welcome the decision to identify taboo words more clearly.
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The mean frequency for taboo words was substantially less, 4 occurrences per million words.
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A similar technique is sometimes still used as a way of representing taboo words on the printed page.
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There have been many obstacles to taboo words appearing in print, but with changes in social values and several courtroom battles these have been lessened.
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