oppressive
മർദക
definition
adjective
an oppressive dictatorship
unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate group.
example
There was an 'oppressive' atmosphere in the room.
When Dan Parks dropped a goal for a 12-6 lead in the 57th minute, an already seething atmosphere became 'oppressive' .
Many prisoners, suffocating under the 'oppressive' heat, fainted.
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.
Your great State has never experienced the misfortune of being occupied, and Australians never had to flee from an 'oppressive' dictatorship.
The collecting itch urged Smith further and further afield, helped along by Houston's 'oppressive' summer weather.
U.S. juries have a proud and heroic tradition of standing up to tyranny and saying no to 'oppressive' , unjust, or misapplied laws.
He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an 'oppressive' regime.
Fog, wet and 'oppressive' , like gauze on a camera lens, softens edges off in the distance.
The heat was beginning, to be 'oppressive' , but as we got closer to the river, the fields became more and more verdant.
One can easily imagine the 'oppressive' heat being dispelled by a sudden smattering of rain, as an iron smoothes a wrinkled cloth.
The sun rose, becoming 'oppressive' as we traveled through the chain of islands.
Also, one has to brave crowds of tourists, loud music and a generally 'oppressive' high-tech atmosphere to get to the classical section.
And that 'oppressive' atmosphere is reinforced even by absence.
Dolly and I had a grand siesta right through the 'oppressive' heat of the afternoon, waking to find the early evening cooler and more pleasant altogether.
It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and 'oppressive' .
We would be tragic heroes, battling the unjustness of an 'oppressive' society.
The 'oppressive' weather we've had this past week makes me want to sleep all day.
On a summer evening, a swab of jasmine or khus lifts your spirits in the 'oppressive' heat of Northern India.
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.
Critics and audiences alike reviled it for its 'oppressive' atmosphere and the direction in which it took the Alien franchise.
The feeling that we have to sort it all out in our minds and make judgments about it can be quite 'oppressive' .
The occasional heavy downpour keeps the 'oppressive' humidity at bay, and lessens the sense that we're walking through a steam room.
Unless supplemented and constrained by minority rights, state nation-building is likely to be 'oppressive' and unjust.
It is no longer possible for the surrounding dictatorships to defend their 'oppressive' ways as the immutable order of things.
No, this won't be a naval skirmish with some 'oppressive' foreign dictator.
The building radiated an 'oppressive' atmosphere, loaded with the anguish of men and women facing death.
Examples of the 'oppressive' and repressive treatment of women abound.
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.
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