oppressive
جابرانہ
definition
adjective
an oppressive dictatorship
unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate group.
example
We would be tragic heroes, battling the unjustness of an 'oppressive' society.
If they are made to work, and are chastised, but stinted of their food, such treatment is 'oppressive' , and saps their strength.
Summer's spiritual hardships are manifest through the 'oppressive' summer heat.
Some people love hot weather, but I find it 'oppressive' and stifling and generally unpleasant.
One can easily imagine the 'oppressive' heat being dispelled by a sudden smattering of rain, as an iron smoothes a wrinkled cloth.
In many cases 'oppressive' authorities actively prevent normal migration processing from occurring.
He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an 'oppressive' regime.
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.
They found government harsh and 'oppressive' , complaining of the disparities between the rich and poor.
Examples of the 'oppressive' and repressive treatment of women abound.
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.
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.
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.
The sun rose, becoming 'oppressive' as we traveled through the chain of islands.
This brought a heavily 'oppressive' silence into the room.
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.
Unless supplemented and constrained by minority rights, state nation-building is likely to be 'oppressive' and unjust.
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.
The same 'oppressive' atmosphere pervades the town of Soham.
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.
The course, as always, was immaculately presented and the weather was 'oppressive' on the first day and overcast for the second round.
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.
When Dan Parks dropped a goal for a 12-6 lead in the 57th minute, an already seething atmosphere became 'oppressive' .
The collecting itch urged Smith further and further afield, helped along by Houston's 'oppressive' summer weather.
The 'oppressive' weather we've had this past week makes me want to sleep all day.
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?
Freak hailstorms will victimize the prairies while 'oppressive' heat waves cook southern Ontario.
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