"inhibitions" is an English word and is used correctly in written English.
You can use it to talk about lacking the ability or courage to do something or to express yourself freely due to social conventions, fear, or shyness. For example, "He had to push through his inhibitions before he could speak up in front of the crowd."
I reasoned with myself that, because I'd got home safely at the end of the night, the police had weren't likely to be interested I'd shown classic symptoms of having had my drink spiked – including amnesia, visual problems, nausea, unconsciousness and lowered inhibitions – but I didn't know what the guy looked like.
For some, however, it will be more than just their inhibitions that they lost over the weekend.
We also loved El Último Gato (Calle Aldade José Ruiz Cana 11) whose eight-seat bar and muralled garden are fine places in which to lose a few hours and a few inhibitions.
Unless he has unusually brittle hands, a boxer whose fists are protected by cushions has no such inhibitions.
This should somewhat lighten the atmosphere at this week's Bush-Lula talks.But Brazil has its own inhibitions about the haggling ahead.
To avert another crunch, she preaches, the world should adopt Germany's tempered version of capitalism, its social-market economy.But in matters of war and peace Germany has yet to shed its inhibitions.
Unlike the federal government, Minas has no inhibitions about outsourcing: it plans to buy 500 new police cars and outsource their maintenance.
The intention is not to frighten the horses.But in trying to head off Labour's charges that he is a swivel-eyed extremist, Mr Howard has opened up a space for UKIP, which has no such inhibitions.
But Stephen Harper's Conservative minority government has no such inhibitions.
Once derided as "an economic giant but a political dwarf", the country is plainly fast becoming a bigger actor on the global stage to the particular delight of Mr Schröder's main foreign-policy adviser, Michael Steiner.In the early 1990s, still bound by the inhibitions of its past, Germany was reluctant even to send troops on humanitarian missions to places such as Cambodia and Somalia.
The Austrian savings banks, led by their flagship Erste Bank, have no inhibitions about looking west as well as east.
