forbidding

a grim and forbidding building.

sumptuary laws forbidding gambling.

forbidding storm clouds

taboos forbidding incest

The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.

The emperor issued an edict forbidding doing trade with foreigners.

Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.

Parliament has passed an act forbidding the slaughter of animals for pleasure.

The cellar was dark and forbidding; moreover, I knew a family of mice had nested there.

These experiences had not made Jung stern or forbidding, but had given him a puckish sense of humor.

A vast inland bay, the forbidding White Sea takes its name from constant fog, snowbound shores, and from September to May, a surface composed entirely of ice.

We had indeed reached a questionable and forbidding neighbourhood.

The kings look forbidding, and have long black ringlets and rippling beards.

But they're about to begin an epic journey north through the bleak and forbidding tundra.

The one point that was forbidding about this reddleman was his colour.

In the bright morning light the Chateau d'If stood out black and forbidding.

On the contrary, her tone was cold and all of a sudden she looked rather forbidding.

In Spain, law were passed forbidding the use of the Romany lauguage and the wearing of their traditional clothes.

Today $8 or $10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens.

Even under a clear blue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mud bricks.

A broad, square-jawed witch with very short grey hair sat on Fudges left; she wore a monocle and looked forbidding.