Use of permissive in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include permissive at the start of sentence, permissive at the end of sentence and permissive in the middle of sentence

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permissive at the start of sentence


  1. Permissive parents, on the other hand, are too lax about guiding their children.

permissive at the end of sentence


  1. There was a generally growing permissive attitude, although I don't think that the attitude towards homosexuality was particularly permissive.

permissive in the middle of sentence


  1. We live in a permissive society.
  2. He had a very permissive upbringing.
  3. The Fifties were not a permissive era.
  4. He is a product of the permissive society of the 1960s.
  5. In the permissive society of the 1960s anything was possible.
  6. They must be accorded a permissive rather than a causal role.
  7. Police powers were permissive in dealing with the lower classes.
  8. The permissive society of the 60's and 70's was not yet dreamed of.
  9. He claims that society has been far too permissive towards drug taking.
  10. Direct priMary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive.
  11. For he grew up before the permissive society and remembers his adolescence.
  12. Time and again a permissive present is contrasted with the not too distant past.
  13. Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television?
  14. It's not always true that young people have a more permissive attitude towards sex.
  15. It's a very permissive school where the children are allowed to do whatever they like.
  16. The students on his floor came from backgrounds more affluent and permissive than his own.
  17. Fat Vince doubles as the popular and permissive assistant-manager of a snooker hall in Victoria.
  18. It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude, or a loving and a permissive one.
  19. Earlier, permissive legislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled.
  20. The tenor of the 1976 Act is permissive: a licence should be granted unless good cause is shown justifying refusal.
  21. Those who advocated reform argued consistently that it ought not to be interpreted as a permissive move for two reasons.
  22. These powers were permissive, and in most of Britain urban sprawl and ribbon development continued more or less unabated.
  23. The grey streets of London and a Western society on which the permissive 1960s had made its mark were small compensation.
  24. Confusion and uncertainty are the major characteristics of the permissive society according to the conservative-historians.
  25. The suspect has little opportunity for demonstrating his or her innocence against any one of a medley of permissive street powers.
  26. Certainly, there is little strong evidence of an unambiguous growth in permissive child-rearing practice, at least in the United Kingdom.
  27. For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of central importance to an understanding of the permissive society.

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Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing.