oppressive
ਦਮਨਕਾਰੀ
definition
adjective
an oppressive dictatorship
unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate group.
example
This brought a heavily 'oppressive' silence into the room.
I could give you hundreds of examples of local communities that have been just as 'oppressive' and unjust as nation states.
We had left the 'oppressive' flat humidity of Lima at dawn, rising through the low cloud that seemed to hang permanently over the city, as if entering a second sky.
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 is no longer possible for the surrounding dictatorships to defend their 'oppressive' ways as the immutable order of things.
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.
No, this won't be a naval skirmish with some 'oppressive' foreign dictator.
Beneath the hot and sticky 'oppressive' atmosphere of the venue, Jon pushed his way past the bobbing bodies toward the bar.
If they are made to work, and are chastised, but stinted of their food, such treatment is 'oppressive' , and saps their strength.
Many prisoners, suffocating under the 'oppressive' heat, fainted.
When Hetty gets the good news, she packs a rucksack full of books and heads for Wordsworth country to escape the 'oppressive' atmosphere at home.
In many cases 'oppressive' authorities actively prevent normal migration processing from occurring.
Wentworth had a threateningly dark and 'oppressive' atmosphere whereas I can honestly say I've been in scarier factory canteens than the one at Larkhall.
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.
There was an 'oppressive' atmosphere in the room.
And that 'oppressive' atmosphere is reinforced even by absence.
I hated the unjust, 'oppressive' system so, in my twenties, I fled the country illegally to seek truth and freedom in the West.
Freak hailstorms will victimize the prairies while 'oppressive' heat waves cook southern Ontario.
Composed shortly after The Turn of the Screw, the Canticle shares that opera's claustrophobic, 'oppressive' atmosphere.
People take their future into their own hands and rebel against an 'oppressive' authority.
And in one very long day, these characters are about to enter the autumn of their lives with an 'oppressive' weight on their shoulders.
They found government harsh and 'oppressive' , complaining of the disparities between the rich and poor.
Wig also found that, on top of the normal pressure of call center work, the atmosphere was very 'oppressive' .
The same 'oppressive' atmosphere pervades the town of Soham.
The heat was beginning, to be 'oppressive' , but as we got closer to the river, the fields became more and more verdant.
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.
Whatever 'oppressive' tactics the authorities use, we should not let them stop us protesting and expressing our anger about their atrocities.
There is very little dialogue in the film, furthering the, at times, 'oppressive' silence weighing upon the viewer.
The building radiated an 'oppressive' atmosphere, loaded with the anguish of men and women facing death.
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