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oppressed
adjective as in downtrodden
Example Sentences
The enemy, however defined, is to be marginalized and oppressed as the Other.
"This victory is a shining light for everyone who has been oppressed and a strong warning to any company or contractor practising different forms of torture and abuse."
As Paul Waldman recently wrote in his newsletter, Trump tells men "you are oppressed."
“When Jesus came, he came with better understanding. You don't kill people that are possessed or oppressed of demons, you simply cast the demons out,” he says.
She told the BBC at the time that the Voice was about "assimilating us into the colonial constitution to make us nice, neat little Indigenous Australians that will continue to be oppressed by the coloniser".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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