taboo
ചിലരല്ലാതെ
definition
verb
traditional societies taboo female handling of food during this period
place under prohibition.
noun
Accurate statistics are hard to come by, especially in a country where social taboos and threats keep many victims silent.
a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
adjective
sex was a taboo subject
prohibited or restricted by social custom.
example
Why do you think sex is still so 'taboo' in the U.S.?
Contraception and abortion - once 'taboo' topics - have been enshrined into law.
Certain subjects are 'taboo' , or too emotive to be examined with objectivity.
The hornets are numerous down in that cave; we do not touch it; it is 'taboo' .
The fact that the subject is 'taboo' also means that a man who is traumatized by the experience may be retraumatized again and again, with each child born to him.
In front of the big screen this behaviour is generally considered 'taboo' .
Once 'taboo' , birth control and family planning are quietly available to discreet couples.
Christianity was another force that was gradually eliminating dangers from spirits based at 'taboo' sites.
Totems of specific clans, healers, or royal dynasties are 'taboo' to certain members of some ethnic groups.
During the Civil War, hungry Northern soldiers, unaware of the social 'taboo' surrounding peanuts, began eating them.
Hearing them talk, you'd have thought the very subject was 'taboo' : awe, wonder and, yes, fear crept into their voices.
Divorce is still 'taboo' in some cultures - find an immigrant family that has been rocked by one.
The topic is so 'taboo' that it almost can't be talked about.
But whether it should be 'taboo' even to discuss such issues, as some are arguing, is another question.
Al-Jazeera gives air-time to their Arab leaders' opponents and to ordinary viewers and discusses 'taboo' political and social topics.
As they saw it, many details concerning clan histories and 'taboo' places have been forgotten over the past few generations.
The members of one clan from northern Kenya observe a 'taboo' on eating fish.
Our culture has become distinctly sexualised over the past 20 years, and subjects that were once 'taboo' are now openly discussed.
In the Solomon Islands, shrines are always 'taboo' places.
In the not too distant past, talk of sex was strictly 'taboo' .
But his live show is much more casually cruel, and no matter how sensitive a subject, nothing is 'taboo' for his one-liners.
I mean it doesn't mean that I want to be rude, it's not that, it's just that you go to certain spaces that are 'taboo' .
Information and counseling on once 'taboo' subjects are now freely available, yet traditional mores still predominate.
On a day for women, culturally 'taboo' subjects like female sexuality can be openly acknowledged.
Almost all animal flesh is edible and nutritious, yet most human societies 'taboo' many of the animal species available to them.
Not only 'taboo' places but also mountain tops were known to be frequented by spirits.
As society engages in dialogue on these issues no subject will be 'taboo' .
Previously 'taboo' areas were opened for examination, and laws and legal attitudes were modified.
The thing is that they're also trained to violate the ultimate 'taboo' of society - to kill people.
For many it is a 'taboo' subject which leaves people feeling isolated and vulnerable.
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