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oppressively
adverb as in severely
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Zwicky had worked to defend Huawei against allegations that the company fueled oppressive surveillance measures.
They become easy prey to oppressive and exploitative state security apparatus.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s 1991 prize looked much better than those two in the moment, as Myanmar’s foremost political prisoner fought an oppressive regime.
NYC summer running can be oppressive in normal times, but in 2020, our year of the plague, there’s the additional running-with-a-mask factor.
Because the cult of the six-pack reigns oppressively supreme.
They can be a source of pure delight for women who lead oppressively serious lives.
He looked very hot, his wavy hair lay damply on his brow, and he appeared excited, oppressively alive.
They left them to this endless task, and went on, Daniel talking in his oppressively loud voice of the number of the deaths.
The weather was oppressively warm again on this day, and business in Ecorse was apparently not "booming."
The weather with us has never been oppressively hot; and storms or quiet rains have been frequent.
Evidently the residents found the climate too oppressively hot for church that Sunday morning.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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