Allowed and Verboten

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Verboten is an antonym for allowed.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Verboten adjective - That may not be permitted.

Usage example: a college campus on which any form of hate speech was strictly verboten

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Allowed is an antonym for verboten.

Note that, since talking about death is allowed, there may be references to characters that have died in the past, but onscreen deaths are still verboten.

Source: Nobody Can Die
No Sex Allowed; the only sex you're allowed to have is with the partner the Party assigns to you, and only for procreation — sex for pleasure is strictly verboten.

Source: Crapsack World / Literature

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