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  • noun Plural form of inhibition.

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Examples

  • To what degree people are conscious of such inhibitions is unclear.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • Alcohol lowers inhibitions, which is part of the pleasure of responsible drinking.

    “TAKE COURAGE” BEER AD » Sociological Images 2009

  • Clouding your judgment and losing your inhibitions is a recipe for disaster.

    IOL: News 2009

  • Sometimes our challenges are physical and sometimes psychological namely our inhibitions and fears.

    The BEING HAD Times 2009

  • What I find annoying is that smart, competent, attractive female characters seem to appreciate having their bottoms pinched, lack sexual "inhibitions", and are highly maternal and love getting pregnant.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • I don't understand this: you said "What I find annoying is that smart, competent, attractive female characters seem to appreciate having their bottoms pinched, lack sexual "inhibitions", and are highly maternal and love getting pregnant."

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • "What I find annoying is that smart, competent, attractive female characters seem to appreciate having their bottoms pinched, lack sexual "inhibitions", and are highly maternal and love getting pregnant."

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • What I find annoying is that smart, competent, attractive female characters seem to appreciate having their bottoms pinched, lack sexual "inhibitions", and are highly maternal and love getting pregnant.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Angeline Goreau notes the "inhibitions" placed on women's ways of "speaking, looking, walking, imagining, thinking."

    My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

  • a biotype in whom a full complement of what are called inhibitions never develops.

    The War Terror 1908

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