#forbidding

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. ↗

— James Merrill

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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

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It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. ↗

— Frank Borman

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