taboo

As Armstrong writes, “It was not a ‘great objective something,’ but had imprecise connotations of obligation and taboo.”

Our culture is becoming more open-minded about previously taboo subjects.

Millions of us are gay, and yet what gay people do in bed remains taboo—almost never discussed—so what is the truth about gay sex?

Everything was on the table, the promos said; no subjects were taboo.

Lingerie—once so scandalous, erotic—was worse than taboo, it was passé.

Taboo survivals act dysgenically within the family under present conditions.

There were no home-books to be signed by governesses: there was no longer any taboo upon the revelation of Christian names.

The savage was afraid to utter the real name of his god, it was taboo.

The cow is taboo to the Hindus, the pig is taboo to the Mohammedans and to the Jews.

Breach of taboo rendered not only the individual lawbreaker but the whole tribe, however innocent, liable to punishment.