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Taboo
"Taboo" in a Sentence (18 examples)
The excessive use of salt should be taboo.
The topic is taboo here.
It exists, but seeing as it is taboo and that nobody talks about it, there's no need to have words for it.
Incest is a taboo found in almost all cultures.
It used to be taboo for women to smoke.
No taboo is known to be universal.
In special forces, torture is a taboo.
It exists, but since it's taboo and nobody talks about it, there's no need to give it a name.
Depending on others is taboo.
This subject is taboo.
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It is true indeed that a taboo - in order to be a proper taboo - must not rest in the general mind on argument or reason.
So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.
The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.
For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
American society has a double standard when it comes to sexuality. We have a puritanical taboo against talking about sexuality directly, yet we are fine with the sexual images that pervade television and glossy magazines.
Now, we assume that people who check their watches at dinner are probably trying to avoid pulling out their phones, which would be ruder and more disruptive. In other words, mass adoption killed the taboo.
Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
Sweets and fats are strictly taboo in my home.
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