oppressive
Example Sentences
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There was Kent Brantly, 27, a family physician who, owing to the grueling hours and oppressive African heat, had lost 30 pounds even before he succumbed to hemorrhagic fevers.
Eleanor fanned herself with her notepad to ward off the oppressive heat.
From Literature
“One of the interesting things about L.A. was, when I moved there, I couldn’t really blame the city anymore because I wasn’t in an oppressive place,” he remembers.
From Los Angeles Times
Popular methodologies today for middle and high schools stress group work, projects, technology, and an oppressive focus on math and science curriculums.
She said: "What if we are left with ruins and the same mullahs and the same government? Only more oppressive and more defiant?"
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
