oppressive
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definition
adjective
an oppressive dictatorship
unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate group.
example
Fog, wet and 'oppressive' , like gauze on a camera lens, softens edges off in the distance.
All the Tests lasted a full five days and were attended by a sizeable crowd despite stifling security, 'oppressive' weather and poor facilities at the venues.
One can easily imagine the 'oppressive' heat being dispelled by a sudden smattering of rain, as an iron smoothes a wrinkled cloth.
He threw out an estimate that perhaps two cents from every litre of gas we buy goes to support a dictatorship or other 'oppressive' forms of government.
There was an 'oppressive' atmosphere in the room.
Many prisoners, suffocating under the 'oppressive' heat, fainted.
It may feel somewhat 'oppressive' for those readers who don't mind a crazy wife in the attic but ultimately prefer to see intelligent love conquer all.
The occasional heavy downpour keeps the 'oppressive' humidity at bay, and lessens the sense that we're walking through a steam room.
There is very little dialogue in the film, furthering the, at times, 'oppressive' silence weighing upon the viewer.
Be prepared for more 'oppressive' heat during the next two months as the dry weather will likely continue before entering the transition to the rainy season.
People take their future into their own hands and rebel against an 'oppressive' authority.
Sometimes, perhaps, the vastness of sky was 'oppressive' in the way wilderness weighed on McGregor's Canadians.
And in one very long day, these characters are about to enter the autumn of their lives with an 'oppressive' weight on their shoulders.
No, this won't be a naval skirmish with some 'oppressive' foreign dictator.
And that 'oppressive' atmosphere is reinforced even by absence.
The course, as always, was immaculately presented and the weather was 'oppressive' on the first day and overcast for the second round.
On a summer evening, a swab of jasmine or khus lifts your spirits in the 'oppressive' heat of Northern India.
This brought a heavily 'oppressive' silence into the room.
You want to come stay in Tel Aviv one of these days, now that's 'oppressive' weather.
I could give you hundreds of examples of local communities that have been just as 'oppressive' and unjust as nation states.
In fact, not a lot happens at all in the first book, it mostly just introduces the main characters and sets up the 'oppressive' atmosphere of the castle.
If they are made to work, and are chastised, but stinted of their food, such treatment is 'oppressive' , and saps their strength.
They found government harsh and 'oppressive' , complaining of the disparities between the rich and poor.
He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an 'oppressive' regime.
Some people love hot weather, but I find it 'oppressive' and stifling and generally unpleasant.
Whatever 'oppressive' tactics the authorities use, we should not let them stop us protesting and expressing our anger about their atrocities.
They are willing to espouse the most 'oppressive' dictatorship on earth just to be different!
The collecting itch urged Smith further and further afield, helped along by Houston's 'oppressive' summer weather.
It is no longer possible for the surrounding dictatorships to defend their 'oppressive' ways as the immutable order of things.
Wig also found that, on top of the normal pressure of call center work, the atmosphere was very 'oppressive' .
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