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Banned

adjective

Forbidden by law. Synonym: prohibited.

Ban

verb

(past & past part. banned; pres. part. banning)

Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper). Synonym: censor.

Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure.

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment. Synonym: banish.

Expel from a community or group. Synonyms: banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun.

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"Banned" Quotes from Famous Books

... then, the cowherd, Spoke the very words which follow: "O thou lively son of Lempi, Thou hast banned the young and old men, 480 Banned the men of age between them, Wherefore hast not banned ...

— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous

... who so often mixed up the present and the past, would talk of the Cardews as though their name had never been banned, as though they still came and went as friends and intimates at Aghadoe Abbey as in the days before the trouble ...

— The Story of Bawn • Katharine Tynan

... half-panted Mr Cupples in his night-shirt, at Alec's elbow, still under the influence of the same spirit he had banned on its way to Alec Forbes's empty house—"damn you, bantam! ye've broken my father's tumler. De'il tak' ye for a vaigabon'! I've a guid min' to thraw the neck ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... odorless insecticide that has toxic effects on most animals; the use of DDT was banned in the US ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... as he turned to me, 'you're to take this child and bring it up as your own, or anybody else's you like, except Mr. Napier's, and you're never to say when or how you got it, for it's a banned creature, with the curse upon it of a malison for the sins of him who begot it and of her who bore it. Swear to it;' and he ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various

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