Prohibitionistic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a prohibition.

    "But by then I’d settled into a pattern of weird, wrecked eating in which I maintained a bizarre prohibitionistic list of foods I was never to touch."

Example

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"But by then I’d settled into a pattern of weird, wrecked eating in which I maintained a bizarre prohibitionistic list of foods I was never to touch."

Etymology

From prohibition + -istic.

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