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What does beyond the pale mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word beyond the pale? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. Used other than as an idiom: beyond the extent or limits (of the thing named).
  2. (idiomatic, of a behaviour or person) Outside the bounds of morality, acceptable behaviour or good judgement, etc.
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For many readers, this moment of unexpected sexual explicitness drives the general grittiness of Horace's satire beyond the pale of propriety.
Still, at each stage of jazz history certain kinds of sounds were beyond the pale.
Now that doesn't particularly surprise me anywhere north of Watford is beyond the pale for most of them.
Both of these of the collection of diseases have an effect on our country, on individuals and families, that is beyond the pale.
So for any woman to engage this dynamic is to go against social decorums and stereotypes in such a way that she may find herself beyond the pale.
That's not deceiving voters, that's just politics, but letting the voters know what they are voting for is beyond the pale.

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