Trammeling

Arguably, on the other hand, it is the very trammeling of such inquiry that open-records laws seek to avoid by providing the means to the public to sift and winnow. ❋ Brec Cooke (2011)

I tried for the good-publicity approach but he went for door number two: the fascists trammeling free press. ❋ Jeffery Deaver (2009)

Even the newspaper editorial boards -- or, more precisely perhaps, their publishers -- applauded and said trammeling on a public vote was statesmanship. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm one of those antediluvian killjoys who have always found them a mind-numbing, headache-inducing, imagination-trammeling, morally desensitizing, graphically violent and misogynistic waste of time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oh, and despite Hillary's trumpeting, McCain is going to keep troops in Iraq for god knows how long, and probably keep Bush's track record of trammeling our reputation with the rest of the world. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

Rather, such abuse constitutes serious trammeling of civil liberties and-still worse-can tip the precarious balance of constitutional checks and balances. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And don't blame me if much of your fleeting youth is spent trying to spell "trammeling." ❋ Unknown (2005)

Although Lanting is a conscientious man with his own passionate devotion to untrammeled nature, even he found a small bit of trammeling to be professionally necessary. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Appalled self-loathing trammeling through her, Faye dropped her head, fighting and denying the physical sensations which threatened to tear her inside out. ❋ Graham, Lynne (2001)

For four years she had lived a life of desperate calculation against all those things she most dreaded, till she felt she had converted herself into a machine free from all trammeling emotions, equipped solely to execute the purpose she had set her mind on. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)

As she exposed more and more of the trammeling net of etiquette in which from her rising to her going to bed she was enmeshed, their faces did not fill with the envy she would have found so natural on them; they grew gloomy. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)

I once heard a lady who had playfully competed with men in a jumping match gravely attribute her defeat to the trammeling of her skirt. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

Is the Christian life, after all, what its enemies take it for -- an additional weight to the already great woe of life, some extra punctiliousness about duty, some painful devotion to observances, some heavy restriction and trammeling of all that is joyous and free in the world? ❋ Henry Drummond (1874)

But this primarily limiting relation of the body to the spirit is only transient, and is not a real trammeling. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)

Dude, did you [see how] [trammelled] he was at [the game] last night? ❋ Credit Master (2009)

Kirby: Damn, that [Apache] is fucking bad ass up there flying around.. [Luciano]: I have one of those in my back yard. Luciano has just [trammelled] Kirby ❋ Purplereindeer (2010)

trammel h. [austin] is trammel. ❋ Dfgjkldfghkljdsfh (2008)

He has a very Trammell [persuasion] about him ! ❋ YallTriedmyMFname (2016)

Person 1: hey did you hear about that [new guy] in school, Andrew trammell? Person2: [Oh yea]! I heard he has a [huge penis]! I want to be his friend! ❋ PutthatCoochieinacoffin (2021)

They [blew] through $100 [dollar bills] like Trammell at a buffet! He [ran] away like Trammell at a buffet! ❋ LMac Daddy Supreme (2017)

The murder of Bernell Trammell may become an unfortunate example of what happens when political [intolerance] goes unchecked. Let us hope that the [killer] is identified and appropriately [punished] for what they did. ❋ Vanguard 1998 (2021)

To [trammel] one. To [lay a trap] and then see you takes the bait? Joe: I always wanted to know who deceived me, and whom my real friends are. Pan: Well just put it out there and see who falls by their own [credulous] mind. ❋ My Predictability (2012)