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  • verb Present participle of disinhibit.

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Examples

  • But because he thought it was better to make something new than to avoid error by defensive caution, he adopted toward his own exuberant creative impulses a kind of disinhibiting acceptance, and he did not subject them to his full destructive capacities — something that was absolutely necessary to permit them to flourish.

    Remembering Robert Nozick (and Some Thoughts on Philosophy as a Wiki) 2006

  • Yet despite her outsider status, she certainly had a profound effect on the sometimes dour politicians of Northern Ireland - perhaps directly as a result of the 'disinhibiting' effect of her tumour.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Yet despite her outsider status, she certainly had a profound effect on the sometimes dour politicians of Northern Ireland - perhaps directly as a result of the 'disinhibiting' effect of her tumour.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • The Salambó in Gràcia is both lively and hushed at the same time, and therefore welcoming for people who wish to sit and read or write quietly over a coffee or something more creatively disinhibiting.

    10 of the best literary haunts in Barcelona 2011

  • The Salambó in Gràcia is both lively and hushed at the same time, and therefore welcoming for people who wish to sit and read or write quietly over a coffee or something more creatively disinhibiting.

    10 of the best literary haunts in Barcelona 2011

  • This disinhibiting exhibition celebrates country music parallels drawn between the outback States and Liverpool, which, in case you didn't know, has been called the "Nashville of the north" by reputed music historian Kevin McManus.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • Sort of a toned down version of speed mixed with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol.

    Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Alcohol Energy Drinks: There's More You Should Know MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2010

  • Sort of a toned down version of speed mixed with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol.

    Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Alcohol Energy Drinks: There's More You Should Know MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2010

  • The disinhibiting factors of the telephone that allow her to perform her own orgasm before a group of strangers for the same reason also work on the other participants on the line: they can bark requests, relax in passivity, measure and assess nakedly and publicly, but without having to be seen.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • Writing online frequently has a disinhibiting effect.

    Bloggers Anonymous 2009

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