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What does permissive mean?
permissive
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Simple sentences
Tom's parents are very permissive.
Mary's parents are very permissive.
Tom's parents were very permissive.
Mary's parents were very permissive.
Movie subtitles
The chances of it being someone as permissive as me are pretty remote.
And also they're much more permissive.
I haven't had enough of the permissive society.
And talking of windmills These girls aren't afraid to tilt at the permissive society.
They, uh. They are a lot more permissive these days Than they used to be.
Justice has been a bit slow in these parts, with all this permissive rot going on.
We are permissive, yet confused.
We've been too permissive with you, young man.
In the permissive 70's, marijuana seemed to be everywhere, through movies and television, it had entered the popular culture.
Well, you're just so permissive-looking. standing there. the way you stand.
Then again maybe it would be useful for these permissive boomer-generation non-parents to see how it's done.
Or at least permissive. Do you ever wonder what your life would be like. if you'd chosen someone different?
You know, Sean, you let Julia drag you around by the short and curlies with her accepting, permissive bullshit.
Of course, i'm a very permissive, understanding chaperone.
Radetzky was too strict. My brother was too permissive.
And also, they're much more permissive.
Speaking as a public-opinion poll I've had enough of the permissive society.
You are far too permissive with your fantasies.
They are a lot more permissive these days than they used to be.
Now, you're too permissive, sister.
Permissive action link confirmed.
Here's to sexually-permissive cultures!
You know, I should probably be. more attentive. Or at least permissive.
You know, Sean, you've let Julia drag you around by the short and curlies with her accepting permissive bullshit.
I'm just doing the single mom thing, and I'm so permissive of everything.
Karen's always been too permissive with her.
I mean, Pontin's was a fairly permissive place back then.
Permissive action links initiated.
They're not exactly in a permissive mood.
Debating the rights and wrongs of a permissive society?
Sorry, Abbs, he lawyered up and didn't give a permissive search.
But maybe, I'm a really permissive mother.
Honey, her parents are so permissive, it's no big surprise.
News and current affairs
Their society was meant to be puritanical, frugal, non-permissive, with laws against conspicuous consumption and luxuries.
The mistake, however, is to assume that open societies are more permissive and vulnerable to terrorism than those who live under authoritarian regimes.
So non-democracies need to play by different, less permissive rules.
True, external factors, such as foreign liquidity, were conducive - or at least permissive - to such periods of euphoria.