Don'ts

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of don't form-of, plural

    "With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos." David wondered sometimes why all the pleasant things were "don'ts" and all the unpleasant ones "dos.""

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doesn't

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"On the paper she had enumerated the do's and don'ts for him."

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do's and don'tsdos and don'ts

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