adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oppressive/repressive regime (= powerful, cruel, and unfair )
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That country was held fast in the grip of an oppressive regime.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Writers have produced extraordinary work in conditions more oppressive than mine.
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However, nothing can be crueller and more oppressive than one without love.
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The heat, which had declined a little at the coming of the rains, grew more oppressive than ever.
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It was even dimmer here, and more oppressive .
■ NOUN
heat
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My first impression was of oppressive heat , but then I have spent my life mainly on the cool side of temperate.
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The oppressive heat and humidity make that smell stronger.
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An opposite movement occurs with the elements of oppressive heat and smell on that same momentous fourth floor.
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This shop is surely an outpost of hell, with its oppressive heat and dense clouds of smoke.
regime
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Throughout 1815 MiloÜ maintained that his quarrel was with the oppressive regime of Süleiman Pasha and not with the sultan.
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Tired of this paternalistic and oppressive regime , Beida students aired their complaints over several evenings in mid-December.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A poor, uneducated people do not have the will power or knowledge to challenge an oppressive government.
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an oppressive dictatorship
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As the sun climbed higher in the sky, the heat grew gradually more oppressive .
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Despite the oppressive heat, more than 1,000 people came to the celebration.
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New, oppressive laws were brought in to restrict the freedom of the press.
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Summers in Houston can be oppressive .
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the oppressive rule of Ceaucescu in Romania
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The country is in the grip of an extremely oppressive regime.
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The silence in the meeting was becoming oppressive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boundaries are most rigid, their outline obvious and often oppressive .
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He could think of nothing but the oppressive bulk in the seat next to him.
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His principles were narrow and his realization of them oppressive .
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Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws, if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair.
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Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.
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The thesis is to show the tragic consequences of parents who are oppressive and inflexible in their relationship with their children.
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They had all the evidence that a less oppressive environment was not effective.