oppressive
baskıcı
definition
adjective
an oppressive dictatorship
unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate group.
translation of 'oppressive'
adjective
baskıcı,
ağır,
bunaltıcı,
zalim,
sıkıcı,
ezici
example
People take their future into their own hands and rebel against an 'oppressive' authority.
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.
Wig also found that, on top of the normal pressure of call center work, the atmosphere was very 'oppressive' .
The building radiated an 'oppressive' atmosphere, loaded with the anguish of men and women facing death.
U.S. juries have a proud and heroic tradition of standing up to tyranny and saying no to 'oppressive' , unjust, or misapplied laws.
Freak hailstorms will victimize the prairies while 'oppressive' heat waves cook southern Ontario.
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.
The same 'oppressive' atmosphere pervades the town of Soham.
And in one very long day, these characters are about to enter the autumn of their lives with an 'oppressive' weight on their shoulders.
It is no longer possible for the surrounding dictatorships to defend their 'oppressive' ways as the immutable order of things.
They are willing to espouse the most 'oppressive' dictatorship on earth just to be different!
Composed shortly after The Turn of the Screw, the Canticle shares that opera's claustrophobic, 'oppressive' atmosphere.
This brought a heavily 'oppressive' silence into the room.
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.
There is very little dialogue in the film, furthering the, at times, 'oppressive' silence weighing upon the viewer.
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.
It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and 'oppressive' .
Does the coercive and 'oppressive' treatment of weaving children differ only by degree from the treatment of all carpet weavers?
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.
David Parry, conducting, takes the score slowly, generating an atmosphere of 'oppressive' malignancy.
Also, one has to brave crowds of tourists, loud music and a generally 'oppressive' high-tech atmosphere to get to the classical section.
You want to come stay in Tel Aviv one of these days, now that's 'oppressive' weather.
The course, as always, was immaculately presented and the weather was 'oppressive' on the first day and overcast for the second round.
The heat was beginning, to be 'oppressive' , but as we got closer to the river, the fields became more and more verdant.
Sometimes, perhaps, the vastness of sky was 'oppressive' in the way wilderness weighed on McGregor's Canadians.
Some people love hot weather, but I find it 'oppressive' and stifling and generally unpleasant.
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.
In many cases 'oppressive' authorities actively prevent normal migration processing from occurring.
The 'oppressive' weather we've had this past week makes me want to sleep all day.
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.
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