Definition of "forbidding" []

• Tending or threatening to impede progress: forbidding rapids. (adjective)
• Unpleasant; disagreeable: a forbidding scowl. (adjective)
• Having a menacing aspect: forbidding thunderclouds. (adjective)

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• "Given the fact that “wearing the colors” is considered to be deliberate disrespect by members of another gang, I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the US flag, in this case."
• "I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the USflag ..."
• "But my preferred way of thinking about such things would at least be open to the possibility that there might be a sufficiently compelling state interest in forbidding it."